We have two problems with regard to sendmail.
First
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miniserv.pl is taking up 75% of CPU in our debian
server.
$ top
6258 root 18 0 7700 2104 2036 R 77.5 0.2
10886:50 miniserv.pl
25324 root 15 0 10264 7340 3040 R 21.6 0.8
6:32.70 sendmail
2496 root 13 0 1008 1008 740 R 7.2 0.1
0:00.08 top
31418 root 9 0 2928 2720 2308 S 3.6 0.3
0:04.64 sendmail
328 root 10 0 760 724 656 S 1.8 0.1
6:56.46 syslogd
2431 root 9 0 2696 2692 1632 R 1.8 0.3
0:01.14 sendmail
$ cat /proc/6258/cmdline
/usr/share/webmin/sendmail/save_feature.cgi
What is this save_feature.cgi that is eating up the
CPU?
Should I kill that process.
Second
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A weird stuff is happening. /var/spool/mqueue/
directory is growing in size at the rate of ~2MB per
minute. This is eating up the /var/ partion space.
FYI, we have just upgraded the server to `sid`
In fact, I can use `rsridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx` as I am
unable to send mails from that email-id.
Returned mail said..
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Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
From: "Mail Delivery Subsystem" <MAILER-DAEMON>
Date: Sat, May 1, 2004 1:11 pm To:
rsridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Priority: Normal
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The original message was received at Sat, 1 May 2004
13:11:15 +0530
from cs [127.0.0.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
errors -----
<ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(reason: 554 Service unavailable; [203.197.138.171]
blocked using
relays.ordb.org, reason: This mail was handled by an
open relay - please visit
<http://ORDB.org/lookup/?host=203.197.138.171>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to www.ae.iitm.ac.in.:
<<< 554 Service unavailable; [203.197.138.171] blockedDATA
