http://brandonhutchinson.com/mediawiki/index.php5?title=Sendmail_%22queueup:_cannot_create_queue_temp_file_...:_No_space_left_on_device%22&action=history&feed=atom 2013-06-19T06:55:02Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1 http://brandonhutchinson.com/mediawiki/index.php5?title=Sendmail_%22queueup:_cannot_create_queue_temp_file_...:_No_space_left_on_device%22&diff=1044&oldid=prev 2008-03-13T20:46:15Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 20:46, 13 March 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Mar 13 13:37:05 nvpmmsa801 sendmail[20176]: m2DIb56k020176: SYSERR(root): queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfm2DIb56k020176, uid=0: No space left on device</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Mar 13 13:37:05 nvpmmsa801 sendmail[20176]: m2DIb56k020176: SYSERR(root): queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfm2DIb56k020176, uid=0: No space left on device</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It turned out we ran out of inodes <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </del>our ''/var'' file system <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>'''df -i /var''' showed 100% usage<del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del>. The host statistics gathered by sendmail via ''confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY'' were never purged with '''purgestat'''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>It turned out <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </ins>we ran out of inodes <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>our ''/var'' file system<ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>'''df -i /var''' showed 100% usage. The host statistics gathered by sendmail via ''confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY'' were never purged with '''purgestat'''.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: On one of our systems running sendmail, we periodically saw the following errors: Mar 13 13:37:05 nvpmmsa801 sendmail[20176]: m2DIb56k020176: SYSERR(root): queueup: cannot create queue t...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>On one of our systems running sendmail, we periodically saw the following errors:<br /> <br /> Mar 13 13:37:05 nvpmmsa801 sendmail[20176]: m2DIb56k020176: SYSERR(root): queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfm2DIb56k020176, uid=0: No space left on device<br /> <br /> It turned out we ran out of inodes for our ''/var'' file system ('''df -i /var''' showed 100% usage). The host statistics gathered by sendmail via ''confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY'' were never purged with '''purgestat'''.</div>

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