From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 23:47:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.yi.org (adsl-63-192-100-78.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.192.100.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F03937B424 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe.yi.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8M6lnR37311; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:47:48 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: Bigwillie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help the daemons are killing it Message-ID: <20000921234748.B37161@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: Bigwillie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.2.0.58.20000921224146.00992f00@mail-hub.optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000921224146.00992f00@mail-hub.optonline.net>; from mvanberk@optonline.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:19:47PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:19:47PM -0400, Bigwillie wrote: > 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 Instead of that, consider using an @reboot entry in your crontab to launch your seti@home client at reboot time. As others have noted, your cron tasks are probably generating all the email (maybe there's a bug in the script that is checking on seti@home's status). > 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 -- Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us Not since Tom Hanks won an Oscar has there been that much acting in Philadelphia. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, about the Republican Convention. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message