Thanks, Bill. I used both of your replies to clean things up.
     Mailman (as user mailman) had a crontab entry, several in fact. As I 
don't use mailing lists, I removed them. Cleaning out the /var/log/mailman 
directory went surprisingly quickly with your suggested technique; not more 
than a couple of minutes. I then re-ran updatedb to purge those same entries 
from that database as well. (I use 'locate' quite often and it had become 
mysteriously slow. Now I know why and it's much better now.)
     I'm going to presume that my blanket install of "everything" in RedHat 
put mailman into the system in a working (crontab'd) condition but, sometime 
thereafter, I changed something somewhere it didn't like. All the error 
messages were empty, however, and I didn't bother researching the problem any 
deeper. I think mailman is now "off" and the quarter million empty error 
files cleaned up.
     Thanks for your help!



On Thursday 24 October 2002 05:30 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:00:58PM -0700, Ed Skinner wrote:
> >      A) What might be wrong? ('man mailman' was NFG and I didn't find
> > 'mailman' in the man pages for mail, sendmail or fetchmail, -- I'm using
> > kmail as my mail reader but, there again, found no reference to 'mailman'
> > so I'm stumped as to who creates the entries in /var/log/mailman), and
>
> Okay, I re-read your post.  Mailman is mailing list management software.
> If you're not running a mailing list, you don't need it and can safely
> 'rpm -e mailman'.  And if you're interested in the documentation, it's
> in /usr/share/doc/mailman-<version> on your RedHat System.
>
> Hope that helps.

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Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/