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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
> 
>