Re: [cobalt-users] mailq

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> sites... i'm just kind of a perfectionist at heart... so it disturbs me to
see
> "failed outpout" like that...

Me to but sometimes my grandma was right when she said "Don't Fuss with it!"

> how can i detect if "sendmail has gone zombie"?
>

I ssh in and run top
top<enter>
that will show all the process running.  then look for sendmail and see if
it's running alot.
most likely this is just junk mail of some sort that got stuck.  i've never
seen anything good in a no control file file.
If it was me I'd stop mail
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
check top to make sure it's done.
 mv them somewhere out of the way yet easy to type
start mail
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
and keep an eye on the q
But's that me.  if you have alot of mail stuck in there because of nowhere
to send it for example it will drag down your system but you can see this in
top as indicated by sendmail running alot and using alot of cpu time.  I
look at idle time and i expect it to be idle most of the time.  i have seen
sendmail eat up all the idle time before because of these type of files.
about 15 of these files had about 40,000 emails that sendmail had no address
for.

Zeffie