[CentOS] Re: Huge mailq

[Ugo Bellavance]

Jason Pyeron wrote:
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of nate
>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 21:47
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq
>>
>> Jason Pyeron wrote:
>>> Where should we start on preventing this type of problem?
>>>
>>> [root at server34 mqueue]# find | wc -l
>>> 185259
>> /etc/init.d/sendmail stop
>> chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail off
>> find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
>>
> 
> Funny, 
> 
> But we tried an even esier rm -rf / && reboot

Eheh, but the '&& reboot' part is rather useless as the reboot symlink 
should have disappeared once the 'rm -rf /' has done its magic ;).