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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Strange files on my system
Date: 2 Feb 1997 13:26:45 GMT
Organization: FreeBSD makes fun
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[Posted and mailed]

In article <32f3b775.4904365@news.intergate.bc.ca>,
	jordon@intergate.bc.ca (Jordon Randall) writes:
> 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.

You should tell some more infos ...
What do the files contain ?

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