[CentOS] Huge mailq

Jason Pyeron jpyeron at pdinc.us
Tue Feb 26 16:31:52 UTC 2008


 

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> [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

> That'll empty out your queue and you won't have to worry about
> it building up again, pesky thing!
> 
> :)
> 
> nate
> 
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