Re: [cobalt-users] Dead Letter Office?

["Infinity2" <infinity2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will try to look at the files contents.
Everytime I remove it, it just happens again after a while.
I'm certain our server is not an open relay server.
All the cronjobs look normal. but where would I check for their cronjobs?
and what would I be looking for?

Lastly, I failed to mention that this is happening in progression.  First,
we start getting disk full errors and the dead.letter file.  The next day,
the cron jobs start popping up.  It didn't all happen at once, it's been
"progressing".  Not the SMTP service is not working because of the CPU load.
Help?

Thanks,

Rob Spurlock

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Kristian Søgaard" <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <infinity2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Dead Letter Office?


"Infinity2" <infinity2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Help please.  This question is for a RaQ. (yes, the original).  Just
> recently, we started getting disk full errors.  When I check the df -m, it
> shows the /var at 100%.  The culprit is a file called the dead.letter in
> /var/tmp and it completely fills the rest of /var.  I have also noticed
that
> it is spawning all kinds of cron jobs.  Can anyone help me figure out what
> is causing this?  It keeps bringing our server down to its knees and
> customers are getting restless.  Please reply straight to the e-mail also
as

Did you try looking the file to determine it's contents?

Did you try removing it?

Are you sure your server is not an open relay?

Have you checked the cronjobs of your customers?


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