Question : /var/spool/mqueue had filled my hard disk

Hi,

I have a webserver at a ISP somewhere. Probably in tele house london, which I rent out on one of these server packages.

I don't know much about linux at all,

What I noticed is that my /var partition was full on close looks it was the /var/spool/mqueue was fulll of files.

Question is what causes this and what are they, and how do I prevent it from happening in future.

I look on google and someone said run sendmail -q but what does that do.

Any help would be good.

Regards

R

Answer : /var/spool/mqueue had filled my hard disk

Well, since this is a managed server, it sounds like the ISP will be responsible for the upgrade. If they do it right, yes, the information will be retained. No harm, however, in making copies of the source files (aliases, sendmail.mc, virtusertable, etc. etc) prior to the upgrade. That way if they are lost, its just a matter of copying the source files back over and running them thru the appropriate tools (newaliases, m4, makemap, etc. etc)