At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:15:47 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> I received the following in my email from one of my servers and have no idea
> what it means or if it is of concern. AFAIK there are no cron jobs or
> anything happening at the time that it was generated. Any clues appreciated.
> Ohhhhh, the penny may have just dropped this could be SOPHOS doing a sweep,
> does that sound likely?
> 
> Out of disk space checking
> /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz/perl-5.6.1.tar -
> temporary directory is not large enough

that directory (and directory structure) is normally used by the
"CPAN" perl module (usually invoked with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"). in
this case, it looks like root was running that command.

i'm guessing it means just what it says: it ran out of space while
trying to extract a new copy of perl-5.6.1 - and for some reason it
decided to email you about that.

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 - Gus
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