Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:14:54 -0800 (PST)
From:  Herb Rubin <herbr (at mark) pfinders.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:08015] Re: vacation.pl eating CPU cycles
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Patrick,

The user had turned off vacation option but vacation.pl kept running and getting stuck.

I had to delete the __db file and .forward files from the users home directory to get it to stop running.

Herb

----- Original Message -----
From: patricko <patricko (at mark) staff.singnet.com.sg>
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Cc: herbr (at mark) pfinders.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 0:23:39 AM GMT-0800
Subject: [coba-e:08008] Re: vacation.pl eating CPU cycles

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
> 



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Herb Rubin
Pathfinders Software
http://www.pfinders.com