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1. AIX
Hi
My box is running with AIX 6100-06 and Im the root user of this box
My /var gets filled up often to 100%
When I investigate I find that it is the below file which increases rapidly
/var/spool/mail/pdgadmin
I dont know why this file is growing up.
Can any one assist me on this.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: samsungsamsung
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello,
I have a bunch of cron jobs in the crontab. For some reason mail from the cron jobs started going to /var/spool/mqueue instead of being sent.
Does anyone know why mail from cron jobs would go to the queue instead of being sent? (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: xadamz23
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I have some problems w/ the sendmail. I see that messages are queued in the /var/spool/mqueue
and they are never sent to the recipients. This problem just suddenly started without any modifications in the current configuration. I already started and stop the sendmail and it did not help.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ktanya
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
First Question: In our company our users have their mailboxes in /var/spool/mail
When I look at the users file it seems as if every email sent/received is in that user file! Is this because IMAP is being used or is that just how sendmail works?
Second Question: How is that when I create... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mojoman
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
We have all the user account in a home direcory where their mail is stored and retrieved by email clients. We do however have /var/spool/mail with all the user accounts in it as well Our sendmail.cf is configured to use /var/spool/mqueue as the queue so .what is /var/spool/mail being used... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mojoman
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I read mail sent to /var/spool/mail?
I do not have pine installed so forget about that...is there some generic utility I can use? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mojoman
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
The mail file in the directory var/spool/mail is very large. Can I zero this (>) without losing any unopened mails there may be? There are about 10 mail accounts. Using RedHat Linux.
Thanks in advance. (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dennisheazle
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
The file var/spool/mail/news has grown very large and takes up too much space. Can I delete this without any problem? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dennisheazle
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How safe is it to remove these spooler mail files.
I need to make some room in the /usr directory?
Any ideas?
thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: larcom61
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i am on aix,
in the /var/spool/mail ,i have an entry as below, after doing a ls -ltr
-rw-rw---- 1 ai mail 3898 Sep 02 11:26 mei
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 22900 Nov 08 14:55 root
shouldnt the ai and mei be the same just like root, root?
thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: yls177
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