Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: /private/spool/mqueue contents Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 04:11:57 GMT Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Geodynamics Research Institute, Texas A&M University Lines: 32 On a magical mystery tour of /private/spool/mqueue, I found several files about which I have a question. Below is a listing: maraba# ls -Flags total 309 1 drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 1024 Feb 21 22:02 ./ 1 drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Dec 17 17:19 ../ 1 -rw------- 1 root wheel 1006 Feb 19 12:25 dfAA00765 0 -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 20 14:34 dfAA01947 48 -rw------- 1 root wheel 49152 Jan 21 14:08 dfAA09913 1 -rw------- 1 root wheel 520 Feb 21 21:53 qfAA00765 144 -rw-r----- 1 root staff 138920 Feb 21 22:03 syslog 112 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 100003 Feb 15 21:13 syslog.old 0 -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 20 13:13 tfAA01840 1 -rw------- 1 root wheel 856 Jan 21 14:09 tfAA09913 Anyway, some of the quaintly-named files appear to have email-related contents and are of what I consider non-trivial size. Sooooo.. Does the system delete them at some point? What if I delete them? Does syslog get transformed into syslog.old at some point? When? Thanks in advance for any little boost up the learning-curve y'all can spare. NeXTmail received at: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu -- The opinions expressed herein are mine and are in no way attributed to any of the many people for whom I work. Who they are is irrelevant. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com