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тАО05-27-2002 01:40 AM
тАО05-27-2002 01:40 AM
Strange sendmail /var problem.
He recieved this error message
NOQUEUE: low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue)
I thought this was due to him receiveing an email which was too large for the filesystem and so it filled it up and timed out. However, there is only the root mail account set up on the machine and this is not full.
Doing a mailq command I receive, no mail in queue.
And when I do a find for large files and compare two different find jobs I find no differences in the size of the files found even though a bdf has told me /var has grown 5% in between finds.
I am stumped and dont know what could be filling up /Var so rapidly.
Any ideas?
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тАО05-27-2002 01:43 AM
тАО05-27-2002 01:43 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
Are there lots of files in /var/spool/mqueue ? you could have a looping email problem which causes hundreds of files to accumulate in this dir. Check whats in /var/tmp (all temp files - can be removed).
cd /var
du -sk * | sort -n
To see which dirs under /var are big.
How big is /var/adm/sw/save ? If its big you can clean it up by doing;
swmodify -x patch_commit=true \*
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тАО05-27-2002 01:48 AM
тАО05-27-2002 01:48 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
/var/spool/mqueue is empty.
I did the swmodify and received this error:
ERROR:
The selected software to be committed was not modified. This is probably the result of none of the selected software having a patch fileset to commit
Thanks for your help though.
Thanks,
David.
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тАО05-27-2002 01:54 AM
тАО05-27-2002 01:54 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log to see what's going on.
Also go into SAM, routine tasks, system logfiles and clear down any large logfiles.
HTH,
Dave.
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тАО05-27-2002 02:08 AM
тАО05-27-2002 02:08 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
Ive cleared all large log files.
But still no joy.
Thanks for your help.
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тАО05-27-2002 02:13 AM
тАО05-27-2002 02:13 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
I deleted the syslogs maually, but just ran sam to see if I could see what was happening anywhere. I exported the display to my workstation, types sam, the sam logo appeared but then it closed and I received the following error message:
sam
cpp: error 12: Unable to access output file (check for disk error).
sam: Error: The cpp(1) command failed on file: /usr/sam/lib/C/fal.ui.
Now whats going on?
Could the machine have a bad disk?
Thanks.
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тАО05-27-2002 02:24 AM
тАО05-27-2002 02:24 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
You might have a SAM patch the isn't configured. Check this with :-
swlist -l fileset -a state
If you find filesets in the installed state, run :-
swmodify \*
Check it worked :-
swlist -l fileset -a state
Then try running sam again.
Regards,
Dave.
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тАО05-27-2002 02:25 AM
тАО05-27-2002 02:25 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
find /var -name core
Regards,
Dave.
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тАО05-27-2002 02:31 AM
тАО05-27-2002 02:31 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
Syslog is being written too fine, I meant there was no useful information in there explaining the problem further, not there was nothing in there at all!!
I did the swlist command and all patches have been configured correctly. None are in the installed state.
no core files either.
Cheers for you help.
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тАО05-27-2002 07:25 AM
тАО05-27-2002 07:25 AM
Re: Strange sendmail /var problem.
Are you seeing any pertinent messages in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log (assuming that's where it is).
Also see:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0be7c6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html
and
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe4b814a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html
Rgds, Robin.