From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 8:40: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C4915078 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:37:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0BDE01911; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:37:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0884849D4; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:37:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:37:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Anders Vidmark Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Anders Vidmark wrote: > Hi Hej, :-) > > Im getting unreferenced inodes that fills up /. > The box is running freebsd 2.2.6-release and sendmail 8.8.8 > Sendmails databases are rebuilt once every half hour. > It seems like the unref. inodes comes from spammers.db and > domainalias.db. > > Is there a way to avoid this? Will it get better if I upgrade to > freebsd 3.2? upgrade sendmail? This could be due to filesystem corruption, either because of crashes or for some other reasons. You can try fsck -y on a quiet system (i.e. in single-user mode). 2.2.6-R is ancient, and it contained well known security holes. The same goes for your version of sendmail. You should definitely upgrade your server. 3.2-STABLE is officially recommended version, but if you're afraid of too many changes (ELF, bootloader, changed VM) you should at least upgrade to the latest 2.2-STABLE. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message