From: Bob Booth - UIUC (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 09:48:40 EDT
Check to see if the 'mailq' command can see the files. mailq will return the
status of the queued files. It may be that control files are missing or
corrupted.
You can also try running the queue by hand: /usr/lib/sendmail -v -q
What version of sendmail are you running? Older versions my need to have
the config file frozen. You can also start logging, and restart sendmail
to see what sendmail is doing. If you need details, I would be happy to
provide them.
bob
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:40:43AM -0400, Nita Hyde wrote:
> We have a new machine that went into production a few weeks back. I
> just noticed today that the /var/spool/mqueue has files several weeks
> old. The sendmail.cf contains O Timeout.queuereturn=5d which I thought
> indicated a queued entry would timeout after five days but it's not
> happening. How do I convince sendmail to expire queued files after five
> days? Thanks.
> --
> Nita Hyde, Systems Programmer
> School Board of Alachua County
> 620 East University Avenue
> Gainesville, Fl. 32601
> Phone (352) 955-7500 Ext. 248
> Fax (352) 955-6700
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