mailq (was Re: check_nrpe misbehaving?)

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, schnitzel meister wrote:

> I've filled the mailq, and check_mailq is not returning the same value
> as mailq itself.
>
> The problem line is:
>                if (/empty/ ) {
>                        $msg = "OK: mailq is empty";
>
> Here is what mailq tells me:
>
> MSP Queue status...
> /var/spool/mqueue-client is empty
>                Total requests: 0
> MTA Queue status...
>                /var/spool/mqueue (14 requests)
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> etc.
>
> So I suppose that's the primary problem.
> I'm using v1.5 of the plugin, I'll go back to the earlier version for
> the moment.
>
> Thanks for your help.

which version of sendmail/mailq is reporting both client and server queue 
stats?  normally you need to specify -Ac to get client queue info.


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-sg



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