Thus said Ian Shaughnessy on Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:24:00 PDT:
> One of my users has been signed up to a number of mailing lists, and he is
> now unable to access his Maildir/cur or Maildir/new directories. I as
> root can not touch them either.. ls reports a segmentation fault. Du does
> as well, and rm -rf also. Basically this is a pretty big problem, as I
> have no access to his directories with any standard binary tools. my
> question is, what the heck is happening here, and why would an extremely
> large load of messages completely kill my binary tools? I doubt he has
> over a few thousand messages, which granted is alot, but I would assume
> qmail is able to handle that. Has qmail gone and written something funny
This doesn't really sound like a qmail problem at all. It sounds more
like you have run out of space on your root partition (which is
commonly where /home is left). This is a bad thing because when you
run out of space there, things can get funky. However, if ls and a few
other binarys are segfaulting then maybe you should consider the fact
that you may have been hacked. At any rate, see if you can run df and
possibly free (maybe you're out of memory to boot).
Andy
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