Alan, I should have answered this too.
Mail is sent by the runq command, which in turn is run from /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mail. This should have a command like 3,23,43 * * * * runq To fix this, su to mail and run crontab -e If this is not the trouble we need expert help. Lindsay On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk > during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq > related errors. > > Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I > have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. > > Can someone advise whether there is some file that may have become > corrupted during such an incident, that would make smail lose its > cool? > > This system has been working reliably for over six months. > > Alan Davis > > -- > Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001 145o 42.5'E > Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 > Northern Mariana Islands > > ---===+++#+++===--- > > "if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought > spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, > but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression > of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, > the utility of the article, including gratification which the user > derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would > immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more" > > ------Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 modem +61 8 9364-9832 32S, 116E http: http://rolf.ece.curtin.edu.au/~lindsay debian linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
