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From: jordon@intergate.bc.ca (Jordon Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Strange files on my system
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 21:38:44 GMT
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Over the past couple of days I've been noticing some rather large
files sitting in my /var/spool/mqueue directory.  I've seen 3 24 meg
files in there, and that takes a large toll on my free HD space.  Does
anyone know why they are being created, and how I can stop it from
happening?  Thanks a lot.