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That's fairly high in the scary meter. I would be surprised if the |
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problem lies with qmail. |
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I would reccomend taking the system down for testing, including long cpu |
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tests, and memory stability tests, from a liveCD. |
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What filesystem were you using again? Any RAID configuration, special |
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processor settings? It really looks like the filesystem got messed up |
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somehow. |
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-Jonathan S. Romero |
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Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Not sure what you mean "maildir style names"... the names of the files |
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> were random bits of (I believe) a single email. So, the file listing |
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> looked something like this: |
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> root@foo>ls |
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> somerealfile.txt |
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> myrealpackage.tgz |
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> been meaning to call and talk to him but I |
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> anotherrealfile.jpg |
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> the other day. So, Bob was saying that I could probably get a |
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> anotherfile |
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> etc. |
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> This isn't an actual listing... I deleted the files already. They were |
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> empty files and their names were seemingly random bits of text. |
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> However, I recognized pieces of that text to have come from an email |
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> that my Aunt sent me a while back. |
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> Very strange. |
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> Ben |
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> Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
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>> Did the files have maildir style names? |
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>> -Jonathan |
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>> Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>> Here's a weird occurence that has me stumped. Logged into my gentoo |
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>>> server and did an "ls" in root's home directory. Mixed in with all |
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>>> the files I expected in there were a number of empty text files... |
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>>> and here's the strange part: the names of the files were random |
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>>> snippets from an email that I received a while back! |
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>>> Now, if I remember correctly, that email was actually routed to |
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>>> root, so I guess at least the email that got sliced up into file |
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>>> names did come from root's maildir... it didn't come from somewhere |
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>>> else on the system. But I had thrown that email away a long time |
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>>> ago... though, I haven't done an "ls" in root's home dir in a while, |
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>>> so I'm not sure how long the files have been there. |
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>>> Well, I'm running qmail... anyone have any ideas how text from a |
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>>> mail file gets scattered around as names of files? |
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>>> Ben |
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