On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:11, Paul wrote: > Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print > >total 912908 > >232704 -rw------- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings > >231214 -rw------- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors > >231768 -rw------- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb 12 08:53 info > > That really is tremendously huge!! > Compared to what I have: > -rw------- 1 root root 151205 Feb 12 16:42 info > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 04:02 warnings > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 04:02 errors > > You'd better have a look in those files and see what is going on! > (su to become root and then 'less info' for instance.) > > Paul
tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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