From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 16:49:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1313916A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:49:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz3.hyperreal.org [209.237.226.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A457643D49 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:49:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brian@collab.net) Received: (qmail 19611 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2005 16:49:57 -0000 Received: from localhost.hyperreal.org (HELO paz.hyperreal.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 16:49:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 54013 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Mar 2005 16:50:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 16:50:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf X-X-Sender: brian@paz.hyperreal.org To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050301083954.P43274@paz.hyperreal.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Rating: localhost.hyperreal.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Subject: "vacuuming..." in nightly report X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:49:58 -0000 In my nightly status report, towards the end, I see the word "vacuuming...", by itself, with no context. I don't see mention of it in anything under /etc or /usr/src, except games/fortune or share/dict. Google suggests this is something Postgres does, and while Postgres is installed and running it's not in production use, nor does anything related to PG appear to be called by the periodic scripts. Very strange. Daily scan included below, with sensitive data elided with a [...]. Thoughts? Brian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 1 Mar 2005 11:19:27 -0000 From: root@hyperreal.org To: root@hyperreal.org Subject: taz3.hyperreal.org daily run output Removing stale files from /var/preserve: Cleaning out old system announcements: Removing stale files from /var/rwho: Backup passwd and group files: Verifying group file syntax: Backing up mail aliases: Rotating accounting logs and gathering statistics: Disk status: [...] Last dump(s) done (Dump '>' file systems): UUCP status: Network interface status: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll [...] Local system status: 3:01AM up 354 days, 6:19, 16 users, load averages: 0.76, 0.69, 0.72 Mail in local queue: messages in queue: 868 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Security check: (output mailed separately) Checking for rejected mail hosts: Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR): 1 apache.org from 194.159.246.198 (no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk) vacuuming... -- End of daily output --