On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote:
> 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).
I've also seen this happen if a process hangs. I think waiting on IO is
what ps says. That might apply to mail.
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