Dear Bill, dear All,
obviously I did completely misunderstand this mailing list.
I thought it is for people like me to communicate with experts like you.
So why are there outputs from cron-jobs at all ? Is this intended ?
Kind regards
Hans
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On 11.07.25 23:25, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2025-07-11 at 16:12:23 UTC-0400 (Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:12:23 +0200)
Hans Mayer <sysadmins@spamassassin.apache.org>
is rumored to have said:
Dear All,
I receive here a lot cron job messages.
Is this the a normal behaviour in this mailing list ?
No. But also yes.
Today's flood is the result of me restarting Postfix on the sa-vm machine after
it had been stopped for almost a month. That stoppage was a result of a DDoS on
that machine that has been ongoing for many months to varying degrees. So there
was about a month's worth of cron output from a machine that was being pounded
into the ground with traffic and hence was having a LOT of failures generating
traffic here. So: NO, this was not a normal rate for this mailing list.
HOWEVER: A lot of work is done by cron jobs of the automc user on sa-vm. They
are intended to fail loudly. Mostly they do not fail. It is possible for that
machine to generate ~100 messages per day. It only does so during periods of
extraordinary stress. It is a good idea to have mail for this list
automatically delivered somewhere other than your Inbox.
I posted a warning message about this flood yesterday shortly before unleashing
it.
