[H-GEN] Sendmail temp files?

Tony Melia tony.melia at tmitc.com.au
Fri Feb 27 22:02:13 EST 2004


Hi all - I just noticed my root partition disk space has gone down in 2G
chunks over the past few days.  I found the offender is a directory called
/var/spool/clientmqueue, but after googling I can't find out if these are
simply temp files, or if it is a problem.  Looking at them, they seem to be
fragments of mails.  I did have a problem a while ago where a cron job was
producing output in the region of 50M-100M which was mailed to me, could
this be a similar problem and sendmail stops spooling the mail from cron
after recieveing a 2G mail to send?
 
Any ideas what these are or where they came from?
 
[root at mail clientmqueue]# ls -lh
total 11G
-rw-rw----    1 smmsp    smmsp        2.0G Jan 19 04:13 dfi0II2D5w015433
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  smmsp           0 Jan 29 20:50 dfi0TAo0SG002475
-rw-rw----    1 smmsp    smmsp        2.0G Feb 22 04:14 dfi1LI2E6f015084
-rw-rw----    1 smmsp    smmsp        2.0G Feb 24 04:15 dfi1NI2DJq003131
-rw-rw----    1 smmsp    smmsp        2.0G Feb 26 04:19 dfi1PI2Mhu002849
-rw-rw----    1 smmsp    smmsp        2.0G Feb 28 04:15 dfi1RI2GIk008347
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  smmsp           0 Jan 29 20:50 tfi0TAo0SG002475

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