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Postfix fills up /var/spool/postfix/maildrop?

Postfix fills up /var/spool/postfix/maildrop?

Post by Johannes Baue » Thu, 26 Apr 2001 03:16:07



Hello,

I recently realized that my Linux box (Running Mandrake 7.2) is
putting little files in my /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory, each
about 350 bytes in size. This is quite annoying, as it really is
filling up my hard disk space (I left it running and after about 3
months there were 500MB in there!). Well I deleted those, but there
still are new files being placed in this directory, all (from the
content) appearently being sent by crond and displaying:

NN"/bin/bash: root: command not foundXE

Does anybody know what this could possibly mean? How can I disable the
placing of files? How can I get rid of this error?

        Thanks guys!

                Joe

 
 
 
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Postfix fills up /var/spool/postfix/maildrop?

Post by Martin Cook » Thu, 26 Apr 2001 04:25:52


They are output messages from cron. When you fix the
error in the script that cron is calling or the delete
the crontab entry or redirect STDERR to /dev/null from
that crontab entry, the messages will stop.

A good place to start would be look at /etc/crontab.

Martin


> Hello,

> I recently realized that my Linux box (Running Mandrake 7.2) is
> putting little files in my /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory, each
> about 350 bytes in size. This is quite annoying, as it really is
> filling up my hard disk space (I left it running and after about 3
> months there were 500MB in there!). Well I deleted those, but there
> still are new files being placed in this directory, all (from the
> content) appearently being sent by crond and displaying:

> NN"/bin/bash: root: command not foundXE

> Does anybody know what this could possibly mean? How can I disable the
> placing of files? How can I get rid of this error?

>    Thanks guys!

>            Joe


 
 
 
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Postfix fills up /var/spool/postfix/maildrop?

Post by Michael Heimin » Thu, 26 Apr 2001 04:53:32



> Hello,

> I recently realized that my Linux box (Running Mandrake 7.2) is
> putting little files in my /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory, each
> about 350 bytes in size. This is quite annoying, as it really is
> filling up my hard disk space (I left it running and after about 3
> months there were 500MB in there!). Well I deleted those, but there
> still are new files being placed in this directory, all (from the
> content) appearently being sent by crond and displaying:

> NN"/bin/bash: root: command not foundXE

> Does anybody know what this could possibly mean? How can I disable the
> placing of files? How can I get rid of this error?

>         Thanks guys!

>                 Joe

Hello,

check /etc/cronttab and all users crontab "crontab -eu <username>",
for something that could be related. Restart crond after changes,
to be really sure it rereads it's config.

Good luck

Michael Heiming

--
Michael
http://www.heiming.de/

 
 
 
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Postfix fills up /var/spool/postfix/maildrop?

Post by Michael Heimin » Thu, 26 Apr 2001 04:56:15



> Hello,

> I recently realized that my Linux box (Running Mandrake 7.2) is
> putting little files in my /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory, each
> about 350 bytes in size. This is quite annoying, as it really is
> filling up my hard disk space (I left it running and after about 3
> months there were 500MB in there!). Well I deleted those, but there
> still are new files being placed in this directory, all (from the
> content) appearently being sent by crond and displaying:

> NN"/bin/bash: root: command not foundXE

> Does anybody know what this could possibly mean? How can I disable the
> placing of files? How can I get rid of this error?

>         Thanks guys!

>                 Joe

Hello,

check /etc/cronttab and all users crontab "crontab -eu <username>",
for something that could be related. Restart crond after changes,
to be really sure it rereads it's config.

Good luck

Michael Heiming

 
 
 
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Postfix fills up /var/spool/postfix/maildrop?

Post by Johannes Baue » Tue, 01 May 2001 02:47:09


Hi,

something just seems strange: my crontab seems alright, but there are
errors being displayed about tasks that I commented out! It shouldn't
even _try_ to execute those. Why's that?

        Joe

 
 
 
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1. Maildir/ in /var/spool/mail/$user? (postfix)

hi all.

I am trying to get postfix to deliver to a Maildir.

I have this working on my Mandrake box (local delivery), but this RedHat9
box (stand alone, separate email server) is puzzling me.

I have "home_mailbox" set to "/var/spool/mail/$user/Maildir/"

I created the following directories under /var/spool/mail/john/:
Maildir/cur
Maildir/tmp
Maildir/new
They are all owned by john:john. Other users are setup in a similar fashion.

The log file (/var/log/maillog) shows mail delivered to

So, if everything is sent and delivered, but it's not in
/var/spool/mail/john/Maildir/new, where is it?

I have commented out the inet_interfaces lines and the mailbox lines in
main.cf.

Must Maildir's be in the $HOME?

thx,
john

--
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.
--Linus Torvalds

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