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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Failure to create queue file
Keywords: sendmail, tilde, help!
Message-ID: <1065@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 18:06:59 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Software Technology Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
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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
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