unable to acquire qmail

in my network some one send a huge bulkmail of 50megs for all users in
the network, i tried to stop qmailctl and start it
it gave alot of messages
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-pop3d/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-pop3d/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-pop3d/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-pop3d/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
temporary failure

How to resolve this issue? How can I kill his huge mail?


Thanks

"madunix" <madunix@gmail.com> writes:

> in my network some one send a huge bulkmail of 50megs for all users in
> the network, i tried to stop qmailctl and start it
> it gave alot of messages

You did "qmailctl stop" followed by "qmailctl start" and got the
following errors?

> supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
> temporary failure
> supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
> failure
> supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock:
> temporary failure
> supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
> failure
> etc.
>
> How to resolve this issue? How can I kill his huge mail?

Do:

sh -x /usr/sbin/qmailctl stop
ps -ef | grep qmail

If you see anything but supervise, multilog, and grep, qmail isn't
stopped yet. If you see qmail-remote processes, you can kill them to
speed up the exiting of qmail-send.

Once qmail is stopped, clean up the huge e-mail using qmhandle
(link on qmail.org).

Then restart qmail:

sh -x /usr/sbin/qmailctl start

If you have any trouble, post the output of the above commands.

--
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Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

I did a complete reboot (shutdown -r now) for the FreeBSD server
The system was suffering a big lag ,,,, qmail runnig with problem
bsd# ps -ef | grep qmail
308 con- S 0:00.37
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan
310 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin supervise qmail-smtpd
311 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin supervise log
312 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin supervise qmail-send
313 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin supervise log
314 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin supervise qmail-pop3d
315 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin supervise log
316 con- I 0:00.00
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin /bin/sh /var/qmail/rc
322 con- S 0:00.21
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -c100 0 110 /var/qmai
326 con- I 0:00.01
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
qmail-lspawn ./Maildir

now I want to clean all junks/spam in qmail buffer....
can you point me out how to do it with qmhandle

Thanks

i need to clean it because my /var is about 93%

Dnia 7 Jul 2005 11:18:12 -0700, "madunix" <madunix@gmail.com> napisa³:

>i need to clean it because my /var is about 93%

To do it use qmHandle or qmqtool.
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