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Re: weird problem
HI Eli,
What you describe is an exact symptom of mailbomb.
Look at one of these qf*** files and see who have sent it. THen block your
sendmail from accepting this address.
If you need any further help you can call me - 050-211344
Yaniv Kimchi
yaniv@zvia.org.il
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Eli Beker wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Nezer Zaidenberg (DL-S)(22304) wrote:
>
> > I have weird problem....
> >
> > somehow something creates 4 files per minute in /var/spool/mqueue
> > this is really annoying as this takes all Inodes and after few days i cant
> > even run vi.....
> >
> usually it's sendmail writing to the mail spool queue. chk for
> sendmail running processes. if you see lots of them. kill the sendmail
> process. (stopsrc -ssendmail)
> chk the mails in the spool, maybe a bad sendmail.cf that cause
> it to run in a loop.
>
>
> > what can write in this directory and how do i kill it?
> >
> > this is what ls gives after cleaning the directory :
> > total 795
> > drwxrwx--- 2 root system 404992 Jan 18 16:02 ./
> > drwxrwxr-x 13 bin bin 512 Oct 15 10:54 ../
> > -rw------- 1 root system 228 Jan 18 16:02 dfQAA45568
> > -rw------- 1 root system 420 Jan 18 16:02 qfQAA45568
> >
> > other info
> > OSlevel : AIX 4.3.1
> > machine : RS/6000 G40
> > daemons running : normal (crond,atd,telnetd etc....) + apache 1.3.3 +
> > database (Sybase 11.0.3.3)
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ciao , Cheers and C'ya
> > Nezer Zaidenberg AKA scipio
> >
> > "work is the curse of the drinking class"
> > -Oscar Wilde
> >
> >
>
> --Eli
>
>