Re: Spool goes crazy sometimes?

Patrik RÃ¥dman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't have the exact error message.

He did it again, 922MB of Mail with a 99% CPU on snexpire. The mail
has trashed postfix and, i have stopped the snexpire to stop him
messing up my partition.

CronDaemonSrootRrootM              0NFrom: root (Cron Daemon)To:
rootN?Subject: Cron <root@procyon> run-parts --report
/etc/cron.dailyN-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/s
h>NOX-Cron-Env:
<PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>NX
-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>NX-Cron-Env:
<LOGNAME=root>NN/etc/cron.daily/trash-sn:NUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.
comp.security.firewall/158080579):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080578
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080577
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080576
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080575
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080574
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080573
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080572
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080571
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080570
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080569
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080568
):No such file or
directoryNUsnexpire:expire:unlink(de.comp.security.firewall/158080567
):No such file

The called script looks like:

# Expire old news.
# Ignores the messages texpire generates to stdout about which
articles it
# expires. If you'd rather get that info mailed to you, remove the
>/dev/null
su news -c "/usr/local/sbin/snexpire * >/dev/null"

> Haven't seen or heard about something like that before, sorry. Is it
> reproducible?

It happens every morning when the script try to clear old news.

> Eh, do you have groups with half a million articles?

No there should not be more than 200000 articles, some lower traffic
groups are hold 6 months.

Bye
Eric
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