how to clear out /var/spool/clientmqueue
 

I recently ran out of disk space on my FC4 system. When I invesitgated this, I found that /var/spool/clientmqueue was occupying 14GB of disk space (as revealed by issuing "du -h" in /var/spool).

When I try to us ls on the directory, the system just hangs there. When I try to "rm -f /var/spool/clientmqueue/*" after a few seconds my terminal screen closes on me.

So far, nothing I tried has helped me to clean out that clientmqueue directory. Any suggestions? Please!!

Thanks.

Try using mailq to see if there is any queued mail messages on the system. Is this system setup as an actual mail server?

I tried using the "mailq -Ac" command, but it seems to hang... takes forever to display any results. In fact, I am typing this while waiting for the results.

This server is not a mail server at all. It's primary role is to run MRTG for monitoring bandwidth in all segments of our network.

Thanks.

Just delete the files there.
 

cd /var/spool/clientmqueue; find . -type f | xargs rm -rf

and add an entry to the crontab.