Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:23:39 +0800
From:  patricko <patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg>
Subject:  [coba-e:08008] Re: vacation.pl eating CPU cycles
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Cc:  herbr (at mark) pfinders.com
Message-Id:  <20061128162339.15232ed4 (at mark) localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To:  <14248449.10021164671561616.JavaMail.root (at mark) z01.pfinders.com>
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Hi,

vacation.pl is running when your customer accounts have
turn on vacation option.

And for common name accounts are probe to spam attack.

Therefore, vacation.pl replies once every 7 days.

Cheers
patrick
 


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:52:41 -0800 (PST)
Herb Rubin <herbr (at mark) pfinders.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Now that we are back from the 4 day holiday Thanksgiving (in the US). I noticed that
> vacation.pl is running 4 times for a single user and eating up all my cpu cycles.
> 
> the "top" command shows that these 4 vacation.pl processes are constantly changing PID numbers.
> Any clues? This BQ server is Nuonce 4.5 and all patched up via yum.
> 
> This particular user might have gone over disk quota while on vacation, but is currently not on vacation and under quota. I can't even "killall vacation.pl" because the processes come back.
> 
> Herb
> -- 
> Herb Rubin
> Pathfinders Software
> http://www.pfinders.com
>