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Started by Bob Weissman
Mon, 31 Oct 1988 18:06
Failure to create queue file
Author: Bob Weissman
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1988 18:06
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1988 18:06
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Lately I've been getting a few of these strange messages in my syslogs
complaining (I assume) about tildes in queue file names. (I only happened
to catch this one because I was logged in at the time and was notified
by the syslog daemon.) It appears that mail is getting dropped on
the floor when this happens.
Oct 31 09:49:42 acornrc sendmail[28605]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: queuename:
Cannot create "qf~Z28605" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": No such file or directory
Oct 27 06:32:05 acornrc sendmail[4254]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: queuename:
Cannot create "qf~Z04254" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": No such file or directory
Oct 25 05:59:53 acornrc sendmail[19985]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: queuename:
Cannot create "qf~Z19985" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": No such file or directory
/usr/spool/mqueue exists:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 2560 Oct 31 09:49 /usr/spool/mqueue
Has anyone seen this before? What's going on? Is there a problem
because of the tildes? Is this a permission problem? If so, why does
sendmail work fine > 99% of the time? Any advice cheerfully accepted.
Thanks,
--
Bob Weissman
Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp
UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | pyramid }!acornrc!bob
Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Re: Failure to create queue file
Author: steve dempsey
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1988 01:59
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1988 01:59
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In article <1065@acornrc.UUCP>, bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes:
> Lately I've been getting a few of these strange messages in my syslogs
> complaining (I assume) about tildes in queue file names. (I only happened
> to catch this one because I was logged in at the time and was notified
> by the syslog daemon.) It appears that mail is getting dropped on
> the floor when this happens.
>
> Oct 31 09:49:42 acornrc sendmail[28605]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: queuename:
> Cannot create "qf~Z28605" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": No such file or
.
.
> /usr/spool/mqueue exists:
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 2560 Oct 31 09:49 /usr/spool/mqueue
----^--^- ^^^^ ^^^^^
> Has anyone seen this before? What's going on? Is there a problem
> because of the tildes? Is this a permission problem? If so, why does
> sendmail work fine > 99% of the time? Any advice cheerfully accepted.
I've seen this happen a time or two. The first one was when some mopping
up security-wise happened. Somehow, /usr/spool/mqueue became unwritable
by sendmail. Make sure /usr/lib/sendmail is owned by group wheel and is
set-group-id, or is owned by root and is set-user-id.
It seems that this error is generated when sendmail runs out of filenames
for the temporaries (/usr/spool/mqueue/?f*). This will always happen if
the spool directory is not writable for any reason.
The other times this happened seemed completely anomalous and I never did
figure out why. Anyone else figure this out?
> Bob Weissman
> Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp
> UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | pyramid }!acornrc!bob
> Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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