Osamu => Thank you, for your participation.
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:33:29PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Oddly enough, every time I reboot, root receives eight (8) emails from > > nearly one year ago -- long, long ago deleted. Yes, the exact same > > mail every time I reboot. Since this is a server, I pickup that mail > > remotely and always delete it immediately. exim is set to forward > > root's email to my account. This recurring email is more than a year > > old and no subsequently received and deleted emails appear like this. > > > > I've checked /root/mail/ -- for some reason, root doesn't use mbox -- > > nothing there now. Also, it is not in my ~/mbox. > > > > I've checked /var/mail -- not even a root entry. /var/mail/mds is > > empty. > > Not that I know the answer but let me try ... > > Did you check /var/spool/exim/input/ contents? No; but, now that I do, I find mail that I thought had been deleted weeks ago -- *not* those messages that reappear after reboot, though. Can I just delete these? > What happens if you run "exim -qff" from root on that machine. Takes nearly a minute to return to a prompt. > What kind of mail is it? Some message installation program created? Mostly post-crash messages about nvi recovery files, system messages to root, &c. Any other ideas? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
