clientmqueue in red hat

[R.O.]

Hi,

I have in a red hat box, the sendmail stopped:

# service sendmail status
sendmail está parado

but there is a directory (/var/spool/clientmqueue) full of files. How can avoid the creation of these files and why they are been created?

Regards,

R.O

[Vernon Brown_4]

clientmqueue is where mail is stored when users are on vacation and can't check their mail. My guess is that there is too much spam aimed at someone who isn't checking their email. You may have to manually purge your mqueue files to get rid of the queue'd up spam.

[R.O.]

But in this system there is no mail service; and sendmail is not running.

Regards,

R.O

[R.O.]

I can see:


4 D smmsp 5020 1 0 84 0 - 1605 end 13:55 ? 00:00:00 send-mail -i root

4 D smmsp 5020 1 0 84 0 - 1605 end 13:55 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./j1SCt9Ha00
5020 [127.0.0.1]: user open

How is possible that sendmail has running processes, if it is not running?

Regards,

R.O

[K.C. Chan]

R.O,
I had asked similar question, here's the url:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=43966

It has something to do with how sendmail configs have changed. It seems there are two part of it; the server and client part. I am not sure how all this fits together. As of now, I have not yet figured out how to get sendmail to send email w/o having to start up sendmail services. AFAIK, this configuration starts with rh8 and upward.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

what is your distribution?

Try

ps -ef|grep send

command.

check root's mail with "mail", "pine" or another mailclient.

[R.O.]

Hi,

Finally I discovered that these mails are being generated by snmp traps by the ILO remote card. I am investigating these traps prior deactivate its generation.

Regards,