Hi Gurus,
I am very new to Linux environment. The Linux server which we have at present is acting as a sendmail server of the Organization.
While doing "uname -a " its saying :-
Linux mail.abc.com 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
The problem which I am facing now is with mailog file. Yesterday mails were not coming to Inbox, and while finding the root cause, we found the /var file system was full. There was one huge file maillog created and made this mess.
It was never happened before. Under /var/log directory there are the files :-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 09:08 maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 17:02 maillog.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 09:09 maillog.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 16:45 maillog.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 16:44 maillog.4
I made all the files 0 byte to reduce the space. Now I can see the maillog file is not getting generated and I don't know whether that log file will switch to maillog.1, maillog.2 and so on ..!!
How can I confirm, my machine is fine and do I need to do any thing just to make sure ..my sendmail server is working fine.
A quick reply on this issue will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for all your support.
Sam
I am very new to Linux environment. The Linux server which we have at present is acting as a sendmail server of the Organization.
While doing "uname -a " its saying :-
Linux mail.abc.com 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
The problem which I am facing now is with mailog file. Yesterday mails were not coming to Inbox, and while finding the root cause, we found the /var file system was full. There was one huge file maillog created and made this mess.
It was never happened before. Under /var/log directory there are the files :-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 09:08 maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 17:02 maillog.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 09:09 maillog.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 16:45 maillog.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 16:44 maillog.4
I made all the files 0 byte to reduce the space. Now I can see the maillog file is not getting generated and I don't know whether that log file will switch to maillog.1, maillog.2 and so on ..!!
How can I confirm, my machine is fine and do I need to do any thing just to make sure ..my sendmail server is working fine.
A quick reply on this issue will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for all your support.
Sam