How To Stop Things Being Written To Clientmqueue

onesikgypo · 10-07-2009, 10:37 AM

Hi,

I turned off my sendmail server - however, i keep getting files in my /var/spool/clientmqueue dir (whcih as far as i can tell is related to sendmail).

Can anyone please advise how i can stop these files being written, since they take up a considerable ammoutn of space.

Thankyou.

Edit:

Note - most of these files are a result of various script outputs, where the scripts are run by crond.

bathory · 10-07-2009, 12:04 PM

You should edit your crontab to send the various jobs output to /dev/null.

Code:

30 4 * * * /some/command > /dev/null 2>&1

The above entry will send everything (stdout and stderr) to /dev/null, so you will not be informed for errors

Code:

30 4 * * * /some/command 1 > /dev/null

The above will send only stdout to /dev/null, so will will be informed for errors.

Regards