THANK YOU! To all who responded. I stopped sendmail, did an 'rm -f *' in the /var/spool/mqueue directory and then restarted sendmail. That did the trick! I'm back to 46%. I am now re-examining the cron job in order to direct output to dev null. Thanks again! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list