[LUNI] Is mqueue a valid subdir???

[Seva Epsteyn]

> drwxr-xr-x   2  root  mail   1884160 Jun  4  01:39  mqueue
> 
> Any ideas what I should do???
> 
> 1.  Is mqueue a valid subdir on redhat?

Yes,

	# rpm -qf /var/spool/mqueue/
	sendmail-8.11.6-15

The 'mailq' commands can tell you, in human readable format about the 
contents of that dir (if it's not empy), for exaple:

	# mailq
	                /var/spool/mqueue (14 requests)
	----Q-ID---- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
	h55F9We01295      246 Thu Jun  5 10:09 <luni-bounces at luni.org>
	                 (Deferred: Connection timed out with punt-2.mail.demon.net.)
	...

or

	# mailq
	/var/spool/mqueue is empty

> 2.  How would the directory get so large???

If it has or had a lot of entries (files, directories, etc).

> 3.  Do I fix it by just cd mqueue; rm -f *

No, if I recall, on most filesystems (like ext2/ext3) the directory size 
will never get smaller, even if all the contents have been removed:

	# ls | wc -l
	   1361
	# ls -ld .
	drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root        20480 Jun  5 10:30 .
	# rm -rf *
	# ls -ld .
	drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root        20480 Jun  5 10:31 .

So you could delete the directory itself, and make a new one.. you'd want to 
get the permissions/ownership right: 755, root/mail.

> 4. Anything else I should investigate???

Yeah, you should reinstall the system, did you see the recent thread on 
reinstalling parts of debian?  "Subject: Re: [LUNI] Regenerate all 
binaries?"

/Seva