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Operating Systems Solaris DNS server /var/spool issue Post 302774743 by Junaid Subhani on Sunday 3rd of March 2013 03:38:45 AM
Old 03-03-2013
DNS server /var/spool issue
Hello all
Currently I am working in a live production environment with 100+ Solaris servers . The environment has one DNS server and one SMTP server.

The problem that I am facing since the past 2 months is that the /var/spool/mqueue on my DNS server keeps getting full i.e. mails with name starting with qfr & dfr keeping on gathering up and I have to manually go and delete these mails.
Some sample outputs of these mail files are given below:

Code:
root@opaldn0: /var/spool/mqueue $ cat dfr238L5KN024487
Your "cron" job on mercury0 couldn't be run
can't change directory to your home directory.
Your commands will not be executed.
The error was "No such file or directory"

Code:
root@opaldn0: /var/spool/mqueue $ cat dfr237i8iY018725
Your "cron" job on mercury1
/med/appl/debmed/bin/runReadgFileS1.sh

produced the following output:

create_log_dir.sh is already running.


Code:
root@opaldn0: /var/spool/mqueue $ cat qfr237oAtK019510
V8
T1362297010
K1362297460
N1
P120613
I0/0/16374
MDeferred: Connection timed out with mercury1.waridtel.com.
Fbs
$_mercury1.waridtel.com [172.21.5.14]
$rESMTP
$smercury1.waridtel.com
${daemon_flags}
${if_addr}172.16.2.28
S<debmed@mercury1.waridtel.com>
MDeferred: Connection timed out with mercury1.waridtel.com.
rRFC822; debmed@mercury1.waridtel.com
RPFD:<debmed@mercury1.waridtel.com>
H?P?Return-Path: <g>
H??Received: from mercury1.waridtel.com (mercury1.waridtel.com [172.21.5.14])
        by opaldn0.waridtel.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r237oAtK019510
        for <debmed@mercury1.waridtel.com>; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:50:10 +0500 (PKT)
H??Received: (from debmed@localhost)
        by mercury1.waridtel.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id r237o5Dc026496
        for debmed; Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:50:05 +0500 (PKT)
H??Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:50:05 +0500 (PKT)
H??From: Backend BINs operator for mediation <debmed@mercury1.waridtel.com>
H??Message-Id: <201303030750.r237o5Dc026496@mercury1.waridtel.com>
H??To: debmed@mercury1.waridtel.com
H??Subject: Output from "cron" command
H??MIME-Version: 1.0
H??Content-Type: text/plain


It seems that the issue is somewhat related to crons.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of such mails ? I have to empty the /var/spool/mqueue directory every 7-8 hours since the number of mails reaches 50,000 +
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

cron

CRON(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   CRON(8)

NAME

       cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)

SYNOPSIS

       cron

DESCRIPTION

       Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local.  It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.

       Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory.  Cron
       also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see  crontab(5)).	Cron  then
       wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute.  When execut-
       ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab,	if
       such exists).

       Additionally,  cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
       cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed.	Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
       file is modified.  Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.

SEE ALSO

       crontab(1), crontab(5)

AUTHOR

       Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>

4th Berkeley Distribution					 20 December 1993							   CRON(8)
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