On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:15, Edwin Humphries wrote: > Of course, sendmail is going into overload, and slowing the machine > down enormously, and given that the emails are double-bounce, to no > avail. But i tried to delete the queue with "rm *" in > /var/spool/mqueue, but got "Argument list too long".
cd /var/spool/mqueue; ls | xargs rm That's the way I prefer, but it's certainly not the only one. :-) xargs will split the arguments up in to chunks that are under the maximum argument list, and feed each chunk to a seperate rm process. It's pretty awesome - check the man page. I'd recommend using this in conjunction with James' advice for maximum happy fun mail time. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
