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Here's one for all you qmail magicians...
How do you clean out the queue and start over?
Situation:
I had qmail 1.03 installed on a redhat 6.2 box and messages kept
queueing, to the point it filled up /var filesystem.
qmail-qstat showed over 1700 messages queued
I've read most of the qmail docs and been to the qmail FAQ and website
and didn't find an answer.
Here's what I tried:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stop
# remove the messages
find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-start
This manually cleaned out the queue and qmail-qstat then showed 0
messages queued. But after a period of time (about a day), it filled
up /var again and there were a large number of messages queued. I even
tried a clean re-install of qmail and it did the same thing.
qmail did work initially on this box, as I went through the tests
listed in one of the qmail docs and they all worked ok. I'm running
sendmail now because it works and I didn't have time to mess with qmail
filling up /var daily. I do have qmail running flawlessly on other
systems, but would like to know the answer to this question in the
event it happens again.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
-scot
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