Re: SYSLOG errors?!

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From: Tony Facca
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:32

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>   I recently upgraded my version of Sendmail with the one available from 
>sgi.com via anonymous FTP.  Ever since this time, I get these errors:
>
>hostname:% mailq
>orderq: qfAA00371 is a FIFO?!?        <- as in this...
>Mail queue is empty
>
>And this appears in my SYSLOG in '/usr/adm'
>
>09:26 mecca sendmail[1333]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: orderq: qfAA00371 is a FIFO?!?
>
>   Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this?  Other than the annoyance 
>that every 2-3 days my SYSLOG file is 100k+ there are no problems.  Thanks. 

Check these things:

    Do you have a directory /usr/spool/mqueue

    Are the permissions on /usr/spool/mqueue 775

    Is /usr/spool/mqueue owned by root with group set to mail?

    Does /usr/lib/sendmail.cf contain a line which reads "OQ/usr/spool/mqueue" ?

If you answered yes to all of these things, then try this (as root):

    cd /usr/spool
    mv mqueue mqueue.old
    mkdir mqueue
    chmod 775 mqueue
    chgrp mail mqueue
    /etc/killall sendmail
    /usr/lib/sendmail -q15m -bd

If this works, then try moving the files from mqueue.old back over into
mqueue (except for qfAA00371).  Then delete qfAA00371 and the mqueue.old
directory.

Hope this helps..

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