bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) (11/01/88)
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,
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Bob Weissman
Internet: bob@acornrc.uucp
UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | pyramid }!acornrc!bob
Arpanet: bob%acornrc.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.govsteved@longs.lance.colostate.edu (steve dempsey) (11/01/88)
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 /\ \Steve Dempsey, Center For \steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu \/ _|/ _ _\Computer Assisted Engineering\dempsey@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu /\ | (_) | |_(_)\Colorado State University \...!ncar!handel!dempsey /_/_/(_/\_/ V \_ \Fort Collins, CO 80523 \(303)-491-0630