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Troy Dawson wrote:
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> This might seem basic, but have you restarted the sendmail daemon?
> We recently had a machine that we didn't know was trying to send out 
> quite a few reports to root, but for some reason (we never found out 
> what) the sendmail daemon had died.  We did a
>   /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
> for something else, and suddenly got swamped by a couple months of 
> e-mails that had built up.

First thing I tried, then a reboot ;-)

Mark

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