[cobalt-users] Sendmail clone issue

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all.

Been fighting something for a while and searches on the Net don't seem to
have much info.... My box is a RaQ4i with all the patches and all that good
stuff....

I started getting the following in my logs... Hundreds of them per hour. So,
I did some research - it appears that this is the result of a majordomo
mailing list and "nothing to worry about". But it won't stop. I know exactly
what mailing it was, and it was days ago now.
Apr  8 06:59:57 abc sendmail[18330]: g38Axd718330: clone g38Axd618330,
owner=admin

So, I figured out how to look at the queue and sure enough, there are the
likely candidates (see below)... I guess my questions are 2....
1) Does anybody know how/why this problem occurred? Is it perhaps because
the mailing list is creating an error?
2) Does anyone know how to clear the queue or otherwise solve the problem? I
rebooted the server out of frustration - it appeared to be dogging out the
server. It got rid of the admin lines.

Any help is appreciated.
Rick Ewart

[root users]# /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp
                /var/spool/mqueue/q1 (2 requests)
----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient---------
---
g38CMaH23180* 4896659 Mon Apr  8 08:22 admin
                                       "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper -v
site13
g360vRk16881*  104584 Fri Apr  5 19:57 mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      8BITMIME   (lodd@xxxxxxxxxxx reply: read error from
winnt.networld-inc.c)
                                       lodd@xxxxxxxx
                                       jmenendez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                /var/spool/mqueue/q3 (1 request)
g38CMID23166* 4928558 Mon Apr  8 08:22 admin
                                       "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper -v
site13