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Re: [cobalt-users] severe problem



Randy Davis wrote:

> Any help would greatly be appreciated!  We have an emergency problem
> that I would appreciate any assistance in fixing.  A user account on
> the system is the user associated with a mass amount of spam email
> going out.  He isn't even logged into the system and I know for a
> fact he didn't sent this stuff out.  I've tried to clear the mail
> queue and shut down sendmail for a while, but then all of a sudden
> the emails will be back filling up the queue again.  I've got ssh
> running on the box and the account they used doesn't have any admin
> priv.  Any advice or suggestions????

Check the logs to see exactly where the email is originating.

Jeff
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