On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:03:05AM -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: > This morning I wake up to find my server extremely slow. After about 5 > minutes I was able to finally get to the command line on the box. I check > out the memory usage and it showed only 3 megs available. I checked the > processes and noticed spamd having multiple instances with it ran by nobody > and with the processing up to 99% with memory at 70%. Apparently whenever > this started SA stopped working because I have people telling me they got a > bunch of spam in their mailbox and when you look at the headers it has > question marks instead of points for the SA section. > > Now the weird part is nobody would never run spamd, only the qmailscanner. > Also I noticed it wasnt its usual line, instead of the normal spamd -h -m5 > then a couple of other flags, it was showing spamd -u > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I tried restarting SA the same issue was happening, it required me to > stop it for a few minutes and then bring it back up. After that all is well. > Any idea what happened? Could this have been a hack? Anyway of preventing > this? > > Thanks > Robert
What version of SA? What's in your /etc/mail/spamassassin/ (or wherever your local.cf lives)? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com What did Noah do with the woodpeckers?
