What i find working is to suspend the user temporarly and then turn the
user back on.
Worked here. Furher more we educate more and more users not just to turn
on vacation but make sure someone takes care of the mailbox during away
periods. Turns out to be much more effective.
Robbert
Herb Rubin wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> The user had turned off vacation option but vacation.pl kept running and getting stuck.
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> I had to delete the __db file and .forward files from the users home directory to get it to stop running.
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> 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.
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>> 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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