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Re: weird problem



Hello Nezer,
1. What in the hell does an AIX related question do in a Linux-IL mailing
   list?!
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.
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'.
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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?