> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Peter Hardy
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2002 10:37 AM
> To: Slug
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Meaning of message?
>
>
> 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.
Hmmm now that sounds like a possibility will check it.
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