On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:48:17AM -0600, jethro at freakzilla.com wrote: > Hey, > > Quoting Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>: > > > % mailq | wc > > 680 3111 38830 > > 680 "transient" message. I think users would be pretty upset if I lost > > almost 700 messages. > > First of all, that's not good (; Is it because of downed hosts, or just slow > queue? > > Second, I'd say ignore the errors. All they're saying is the file was there > when it gathered up the information, and not there anymore when it went to back > it up - because it was already processed and delivered. > > If you want to try and avoid those messages, try backing up that directory > seperatly from the others. > > You'll still probably get those messages. The only way I can think of to avoid > them really is to shut down mail while backup's going on which it doesn't seem > like you'd want to do (; And if you succeed in avoiding them you can have the symetric problems: files that are created after the backup program reads in the directory. I can't see how can you fix this problem other that having a redundant server holding onto a copy of a message for some time (a day should be fine). florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011207/a4b2a49c/attachment.pgp