Re: sendmail hash in /
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:36:37PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 3 10:01 errs3cAjPx
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 4 10:20 errsBsXXgw
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 14:13 errsaNXMWD
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 17:31 errsnLgRvS
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 2 09:31 errsuYVBBQ
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 12:14 errsuyOfkj
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 3 21:33 errsvTUUTy
[...]
> Any ideas as to why sendmail might put the hash and hash.db in / ? Did
> I screw something up in my sendmail.mc, perhaps? How about any ideas as
> to what the other stuff is? The files have a certain look of sendmail
> to them; like those strings that identify queued, unsent messages.
They're just temporary files created with library functions like
mkstemp(), so it's hard to tell where they're coming from. If sendmail
is writing other things to /, then you might as well investigate that
first.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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