Re: Spam child

2019-09-15 Thread @lbutlr
On Sep 15, 2019, at 3:03 PM, RW wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:36:13 -0600 > @lbutlr wrote: >> On Sep 15, 2019, at 6:53 AM, RW wrote: >>> When child processes are running as root they switch to the unix >>> user running spamc (or specified with spamc -u) for processing the >>> scan. If that wo

Re: Spam child

2019-09-15 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:36:13 -0600 @lbutlr wrote: > On Sep 15, 2019, at 6:53 AM, RW wrote: > > When child processes are running as root they switch to the unix > > user running spamc (or specified with spamc -u) for processing the > > scan. If that would still result in root being used the chil

Re: Spam child

2019-09-15 Thread @lbutlr
On Sep 15, 2019, at 6:53 AM, RW wrote: > When child processes are running as root they switch to the unix user > running spamc (or specified with spamc -u) for processing the scan. If > that would still result in root being used the child process switches > to nobody instead. OK, should I set r

Re: Spam child

2019-09-15 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:30:48 -0600 @lbutlr wrote: > What is starting spamd as nobody instead of root like the other > processes? Most likely it's caused by something running spamc as root or trying to scan an email for the root user. When child processes are running as root they switch to the

Re: Spam child

2019-09-15 Thread @lbutlr
On Sep 15, 2019, at 1:09 AM, Axb wrote: > On 9/14/19 9:30 PM, @lbutlr wrote: >> I am still getting spammed processes that last for hours or days. When I >> kill them, `kill -9` they come back after the load drops. The processes use >> 100% of the processor. >> nobody 72041 100.0 2.2 87264 7

Re: Spam child

2019-09-15 Thread Axb
On 9/14/19 9:30 PM, @lbutlr wrote: I am still getting spammed processes that last for hours or days. When I kill them, `kill -9` they come back after the load drops. The processes use 100% of the processor. nobody 72041 100.0 2.2 87264 76940 - R10:36 35:28.97 spamd child (perl

Re: Spam child

2019-09-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:30:48 -0600 @lbutlr wrote: > Running SA 3.4.2 on FreeBSD 11.3 with no updates pending. I tried > updating perl, but that did not work at all, it appears SA can’t use > perl 5.30. I'm using perl 5.30 with SA 3.4.2 on FreeBSD 12.0.

Spam child

2019-09-14 Thread
I am still getting spammed processes that last for hours or days. When I kill them, `kill -9` they come back after the load drops. The processes use 100% of the processor. nobody 72041 100.0 2.2 87264 76940 - R10:36 35:28.97 spamd child (perl) root 52954 0.0 1.9 76992 6