On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 20:43, Angus Lees wrote:
> 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.
Does the CPAN module clear out old archives after it's installed them?
If not, it could very well be SOPHOS trying to extract that old tarball
to scan the contents.
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