I'd try the netstat command, and perhaps even download the trafshow
utility off the Net to see exactly what is going on as far as outbound
traffic is concerned. Also take a look at your /var/log/messages,
/var/log/xferlog and /var/log/maillog to see if someone is using your box
to send email, possible security breaches, etc.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Dan Horth wrote:
> do you have your sendmail set up with anti-spam? check your mail queue
> (use command mailq)
>
> may be someone's using you as a spam relay?
>
> you can also just do a netstat to see what active network conenctions you
> have open...
>
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Robert Canary wrote:
>
> > For about a week now I have been getting these maxed out spikes of
> > outgoing traffic about 15min past the hour every hour. to night they
> > are especially bad at prolonged times of upto an hour. Dose anyone know
> > of away to find out what sort of traffic is being sent over an ether and
> > specifically what process is causing it?
>
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