On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well - the problems are never-ending here ....
>
> Our waterexchange mail server is reporting that it is out of disk space.
>
> (Outlook message: )
> "The message could not be sent because it rejected you as the sender.
> Server Response: '452 4.4.5 Insufficient disk space; try again later'.
> (Account: 'mail.mactel.net.au', SMTP Server: 'waterexchange.com.au',
> Error Number: 0x800ccc78)."
*snipped*
> Any ideas?
Hopefully you have root on the box concerned - coz it looks like either your
mail spool or mailq is maxing out one of your disks.
"df -h" will show you sussinctly how much space is being used where on a
per-partition basis. "du -s" is handy to show a summary (-s) of the
current directory's disk usage (du). Here's a quick-and-dirty hack to find
the biggest disk hogs starting from the current directory:
find . -xtype d -maxdepth 1 -exec du -s {} \; | sort -rn | less
here's what you should see (add a pipe to "less" if you want one screen at a
time):
james@<myhost> - ~
>find . -xtype d -maxdepth 1 -exec du -s {} \; | sort -rn
840800 .
181340 ./.thumbnails
142528 ./Documents
130136 ./Mail
114000 ./.kde
33372 ./.mozilla
30804 ./Desktop
22520 ./Utilities
12252 ./bin
.....
4 ./.gnome_private
4 ./.gnome2_private
4 ./.gconfd
james@<myhost> - ~
>
So the process is this:
1. Find the partition that's maxed out (probably /var)
2. cd /var (assuming /var is maxed out)
3. Run the "find . -xtype...." and have a look the first few dirs. The
biggest disk usage will be first.
4. dig around in the big dirs and keep going (using the "fins . -xtype..."
etc) until you idetify the problem.
Here's my guesses:
1. The current crop of viruses are putting big demands on mail servers -
check your mail queue. There's probably a bunch of un-sendable crud that's
choking up the queue. "mailq" is your friend.
2. Your users are being hammered with new viruses that I mentioned in #1.
Add some sort of filter to clean your incoming mail: procmail,
spamassassin, amavis or a mixture of all three :)
What mail server software are you running? Sendmai, Postfix, Qmail
(*cough*, choke), Exim?? I could offer some more specific help if I knew
:)
Good luck.
--James
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