Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:19:47 -0400 From: Bigwillie <mvanberk@optonline.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help the daemons are killing it Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000921224146.00992f00@mail-hub.optonline.net>
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Just joking, but not a serious problem (I have to reinstall most likely). The problem I have is on a experimental box and Im some what a newbie. Ive been playing around with cron so that it starts seti@home every hour if its not running, and if it is it doesn't do a thing. I came across problems where I would get errors==> sendmail [308] gethostaddr (192.168.0.2) failed: 1 /kernel: swap-pagerpgetswapspace: failed /kernel: pid 314 (ee), uid 0 was killed after that some messages saying that /usr was full. I had /var symlinked to /usr/var. Its like world war 13 in that box. I ran top while this was going on, and sendmail and local.mail were on top just running things. It filled up the partition then they stopped. So I thought everything was ok. Even most of the space was recovered. I thought maybe if I reboot, the daemons would live in peace, but no, lo and behold, the rouge processes sendmail and local.mail are at it again, filling up the drive, 5G worth!!! Its kind of amusing to see this happen. Since its an experimental box, I dont care about what happens to it. My real issue is how could I find out where all of this information is being written to. At one moment /var/mail/root had a huge file size then it would go down then up again, so maybe the rest was in the spool, dont know. Another issue, why is cron so difficult to setup. Im not expecting any responses as to how to fix, but any clues would be nice. I most likely will poke around some more to figure out how to stop this cascade event and maybe reinstall. Im just posting to amuse the gurus and newbies as to what can happen when you have absolute control. I got to step out, Ill be back to report any changes..... _________________________________________ Steiny's Studio Pachyderm Productions http://steiny.hypermart.net mailto:info@steiny.hypermart.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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