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Re: weird problem



On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Omer Zak wrote:

> Hello Nezer,
> 1. What in the hell does an AIX related question do in a Linux-IL mailing
>    list?!
hmmm
i thought the problem was with the apache (as this was the only custom
thing on the machine) (well other then Sybase)

> 2. Look for a rogue cron job, which is activated 2 times a minute, and
>    which writes anything to stdout.
>    The reason - crond sends by E-mail the output of its jobs to the owner
>    of the corresponding crontab file (normally the root).
>    The /var/spool/mqueue file names look like E-mail files.

it was cron job!

i discovered it when i thought...
well...
i dont know what causing it lets put a cron job that delete it and get
done with it
> 3. You may want to look for the sender's name in files whose names
>    start with qf, and for further clues (the stdout contents) in files
>    whose names start with 'df'.

hmmm....
shame shame
the one who submitted the jobs was....
root....
:)


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> 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.....
> >
> > 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?
>
>
>



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