Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: /private/spool/mqueue contents Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 06:51:53 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu's message of 22 Feb 91 04:11:57 GMT The df.. qf.. etc files are e-mail messages which for some reason have not been sent. Look at them, send them off or rm them. syslog is a log of all incoming and outgoing mail (you can look at it, with more or less). syslog tends to grow without bound, so on my HP-workstation ( Idon't have a NeXT yet) I have cron cycle them over a week, and then delete the files, using the following script (which is /usr/adm/newsyslog: --- #!/bin/sh # #newsyslog: save only one week's log of sendmail #logging cd /usr/spool/mqueue mv syslog.6 syslog.7 mv syslog.5 syslog.6 mv syslog.4 syslog.5 mv syslog.3 syslog.4 mv syslog.2 syslog.3 mv syslog.1 syslog.2 cp syslog syslog.1 cp /dev/null syslog chmod 644 syslog --- Hope this helps you and others. Hardy -------****------- Prof Meinhard E. Mayer Department of Physics University of California Irvine, CA, 92717 hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com