Topic 'SOS: sendmail disk space' in forum 'Webmasters and Developers' - dslreports.com

Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:16:59 EDT

DC DSL posted : He will discover that dissing and ignoring the nice Dotnet Bear is not a wise career decision. Dude also didn't put anyone other than himself on the space alert notification list...and he hasn't been checking his email for the last week, either.
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Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:42:46 EDT

cdru posted :

said by DC DSL:

Something will certainly be impacting the linux dude's propeller when he gets back.

So the fecal matter will be hitting the propeller?

Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:27:25 EDT

DC DSL posted : Hey, thanks, guys.

The crisis is over. I figured out how to allocate more space to the volume and that made it happy. Something will certainly be impacting the linux dude's propeller when he gets back.
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Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:59:58 EDT

DC DSL posted : The tmp folders are all empty. The maillog family is what's eating up the space.

I have absolutely no input or control over the Linux side of this puppy...they have a propellerhead who rules that domain and he does whatever he does. The guy's a pain in the backside...bitched me out a few months ago when I said we would need more disk space or more frequent purging of the logs since the broadcast volume is now triple our estimates when launched 4 years ago. "Sendmail logging is nowhere as inefficient as Exchange so your argument is invalid." The sob's propeller is going to be spinning backward for a while after he gets back.
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Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:50:28 EDT

cdru posted :

said by DC DSL:

Yup. At least this is *supposed* to have root permissions.

Isn't it a bad practice to allow a login for a user with root permission? I thought it was a best practice to login as a non-privileged user and then switch to a privileged user using su, or execute a command with sudo.

You might try reasking the question over in the Unix forum to get some more specific help.

If all else fails, can you clean up files elsewhere (e.g. /tmp) to free up some room without having to touch the log files?

Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:24:45 EDT

DC DSL posted : Yup. At least this is *supposed* to have root permissions.

Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:23:10 EDT

twizlar posted : You logged in as root?

Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:13:06 EDT

DC DSL posted : OK. I think I found my way into the mailstore. It's in /var/log. I tried doing an /sbin/services sendmail stop but it throws up permission errors.

rm: cannot remove '/var/run/sm-client.pid': Permission deniedFAILED

rm: cannot remove '/var/run/sendmail.pid': Permission deniedFAILED

rm: cannot remove '/var/lock/subsys/sendmail': Permission deniedFAILED

I tried doing rm on the maillog files but that throws permission denied errors. Samba is in the mix somewhere.

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Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:10:25 EDT

DC DSL posted : I don't know. I think Red Hat since this is on an enterprise host.

Re: SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:57:45 EDT

RenHoek posted : What flavor of linux?

SOS: sendmail disk space

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:42:11 EDT

DC DSL posted : URGENT! One of my clients has a virtual Linux machine that is used only to send broadcast messages for an app. This morning, nothing will go out because of an insufficient disk space error on the mailer. I presume this is because sendmail has kept a copy of every message ever sent. Their Linux gearhead is on vacation somewhere out of the country and I am not a *nix guy so I have no freakin idea how to fix this.

HOW do I:

•Determine where the log/messages are kept?
•Purge them?

I will greatly appreciate a fast reply.
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