Anthony Philipp wrote:
hello,
i am running a personal server and after nearly 26 days of uptime without any major problems last night at around ten pm. central time there was what i assume is a kernel panic. im running 5.2 RELEASE on a pentium 3 877 mhz.
heres the output: (hopefully this is accurate i had to write this out by hand, if someone knows how to get the orignal output that would be nice)
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid =0; apic id = 00
fault virtual address = 0x38
fault code = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc06bc08a
stack pointer = 0x10:0xcb57098c
frame pointer = 0x10:0xcb570a68
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres1, dres321, gran1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, 10pl=0
current process = 27 (swi1:net)
trap number = 12
panic page fault
cpuid=0;
syncing disks, buffers remaining... 1787 1787
and then it was crashed hard. i couldnt switch virtual terminals, i couldnt shut down, all i could do is press the power button. so thats my first problem, what happened? was it a kernel panic? or was it something different, and whatever it was, what caused it?
Yup, it was a kernel panic. Some process caused your panic, which is in
this case swi1:net. Any idea what it is?
ok now onto the next problem. i was running my own mail server until recently as well, but i was getting beaten into the ground by spam. my /var/spool/postfix directory was 1.8 gigabytes. it was all spam i was bouncing from dynamic ips. none of it was getting to my accounts, but my server was getting clogged, since im running this off of adsl. im just wondering what i can do to stop this. the legitimate mail was not a problem at all. also this only started being a problem after a few weeks. as a temporary solution ive stopped postfix and deleted my entire spooled mail directory. however i would like a more permenant solution to these spammers attacking my server. right now postfix is bouncing all emails where the ips dont match the domain name.
Consider installing spamassassin?
Cheers,
Jorn
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