Bug 13483 - If unconfigured nullmailer, huge log size and make host run out of space
Summary: If unconfigured nullmailer, huge log size and make host run out of space
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Staff interface (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low normal
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2014-12-19 11:28 UTC by Pablo AB
Modified: 2024-07-04 20:37 UTC (History)
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Description Pablo AB 2014-12-19 11:28:44 UTC
On a Koha fresh install Koha install and ask for setup info for nullmailer package. As this sometimes doesn't look mandatory is usually left unconfigured: bad mistake: This make mail.log increase in gigabytes steps until runing out of space (as Marco Moreno says on bug #12364/c1):

$ ls -lahS /var/log/mail.*
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm  39G Dec 14 06:46 /var/log/mail.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm  15G Dec 19 08:20 /var/log/mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm  11G Dec 14 06:46 /var/log/mail.err.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 4.0G Dec 19 08:20 /var/log/mail.err

.err white lines like: nullmailer[938]: Sending failed:  Host not found
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2023-07-28 20:49:27 UTC
I believe this sounds more like a system administration than a Koha issue. Please reopen if you disagree.