Darrell,
Oops. Sorry about that. You are right .forward is not part of vacationing!
I just removed it since they didn't have forwarding turned on either.
Herb
----- Original Message -----
From: Darrell D. Mobley <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net>
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:42:42 PM GMT-0800
Subject: [coba-e:08025] Re: vacation.pl eating CPU cycles
Why should the system remove the .forward file when someone unchecks the
vacation message? They are separate entities.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herb Rubin [mailto:herbr (at mark) pfinders.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:50 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:08023] Re: vacation.pl eating CPU cycles
>
> Robbert,
>
> I consider this a bug.
>
> If a user unchecks the vacation checkbox, the system should remove the
> .forward and __db files.
>
> Herb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robbert Hamburg <rhamburg (at mark) xs4all.nl>
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:25:23 PM GMT-0800
> Subject: [coba-e:08020] Re: vacation.pl eating CPU cycles
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Herb Rubin
> Pathfinders Software
> http://www.pfinders.com
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Herb Rubin
Pathfinders Software
http://www.pfinders.com