Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Mail Server Down

[Daniel Jabbour <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/17/03 7:35 PM, "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grep
> the maillog for MTA to see if it logged refusing connections or
> something similar. I forget what the exact text is, but if you just grep
> for the XX:XX hour and minute of the message you might see something, or
> at least sometime in that hour and check your access log. Do you have
> any heavy CGI or database sites that if a web spider started hitting a
> dynamically generated page or series of pages 10 times per second it
> would put a load on the server? I've seen that happen. Had to block some
> rogue spiders that ignore robots.txt. Run TOP and see what's going on.
> If the server load hits a certain level SMTP may shut down.

The server was just put online.  No one is using the server to send or
receive mail.  The only thing I've done is setup a spam assassin spamd/c
setup.  No errors in the maillog! Even at the exact moment it says the
server is shutdown.

-Daniel Jabbour