Re: 39,696 emails later...

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:03:00 -0700

Not sure how to filter... any suggestions?
 
crontab -l shows:
40 * * * * /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2>&1 > /dev/null
 
Don't see anything about clearopensmtp in 'Running qmail'.
 
I'll try the web...
 
Thanks,
 
Shawn
----- Original Message -----
To: lists
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: 39,696 emails later...

Ok, in that case kill everything again.. Leave it off for a few minutes..
 
Add a filter in to block the zombie.. BTW the only thing that could bring a zombie back is a cronjob.... hinthint
 
But if all else fails filer the darn thing till it stops.
 
--JT
----- Original Message -----
From: lists
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: 39,696 emails later...

I did stop qmail and clean the queue using this script:
 
for i in bounce info intd local mess remote todo;
do find /usr/local/qmail/queue/$i -type f -exec rm {} \;
done
started qmail back up again, and the zombies came alive and continued to sent... <sob>
 
Shawn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: 39,696 emails later...

man, if it were me I'd kill all mail services and wipe the queue clean .. Check the qmail home page there are a few queue repair and fix tools avaliable... But simplest way is to rm- R queue and then either (depending on how good you are) retouch the queue to set it up again or the simpler approach just goto the qmail source directory and re-run 'make setup check'
 
--JT
Network Administrator
----- Original Message -----
From: lists
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: 39,696 emails later...

Well, my flood of mails has stopped at 39,696.
 
My boss and people at the office were also getting the mails at the office domain.
I took the office mail server offline when they were at about 9,000 mails to prevent them from getting flooded.
After I stopped getting mails at my home address, I checked the sending mail server and the zombie processes had stopped.
I put the office machine back online and the zombie processes kicked in again, and the people at the office began receiving the mails again. Should I tell them to just hang in there until the total reaches 39,696?
 
The zombie processes look like this:
 
qmailr 26008  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:16PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31053-rtag
qmailr 26088  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31068-rtag
qmailr 26097  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31066-m_ay
qmailr 26101  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31069-m_ay
qmailr 26119  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-rtag
qmailr 26122  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-m_ay
qmailr 26124  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-sant
qmailr 26127  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-naka
qmailr 26131  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-rtag
qmailr 26132  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-m_ay
qmailr 26133  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-sant
qmailr 26134  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-naka
.... (this list shows about half of the processes)
 
As I mentioned before, I have removed user 'query' in whose name the mails are being sent, stopped qmail, cleared the cache, restarted qmail and even rebooted the server itself, but these zombies just won't die. Anyone have an oaken stake for qmail-remote?
 
Thanks,
 
Shawn
 

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