/var/spool/mqueue

[HU Wen]

Hello!

Recently I have a problem with my work station HP-Visualize J5000/HP-UX10.20. On the screen always appear this message:

"Dec 19 17:06:21 eeh2 sendmail[756] NOQUFUF low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue".

I would like to know what happened to my station? How can I repair it?

Thank you very much!

[Rainer_1 · Accepted solution]

possibly your /var filesystem is near 100%, check with

bdf /var

Try to find big unused files in /var/tmp and remove them.
Ie: find /var/tmp -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \;
will remove files older than 31 days
You could also remove obsolete/superseeded patches with

cleanup

(cleanup asks you before removing)
This will free some space at /var

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
Seems you have not enough space in /var, if you could do a bit of cleanup or extend /var

Good luck

Victor

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

How much free space do you have on /var ?

It looks like you're running short of ...

Good places to look for a cleanup are /var/tmp /var/spool /var/adm/syslog

Best regards,

Dan

[Vincente Fernandes]

Check bdf /var. Also run patch cleanup utility "cleanup" from root to remove old patches which may be occupying space under "/var/adm/sw" directory. Try to trim some log files and specially "syslog.log" file.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you don't, you might want to routinely invoke SAM -> Routine Tasks -> System Log Files ...and trim various logs. SAM allows you to trim to zero-bytes or a percentage of a file's size and to add files to the list for presentation. Many of the files on your system that require routine attention are in /var and are easily managed with SAM.

...JRF...

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Also remove the files under /var/preserve/Ex***. You can reduce the sizes of /var/adm/syslog/mail.log,wtmp and btmp with cat /dev/null > /var/adm/syslog/mail.log, etc.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Also remove the files under /var/preserve like Ex***. You can reduce the sizes of /var/adm/syslog/mail.log,wtmp and btmp with cat /dev/null > /var/adm/syslog/mail.log, etc.
Do a cleanup of superseded patches.