On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:25:24 -0800 "Dr. John W. Glendening" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After using spamassassin 2.60 on a RH 7.3 linux box with no problems for
> four months, suddenly yesterday "root" started receiving emails every
> 10 minutes ala the attached - based on the subject line I gather it is
> a spam assassin problem, though I was not aware that SA would create
> cron jobs! I had not made any changes that I can relate to this. And
> at the end of the day the email messages stopped (last one at 23:50).
> SA seemed to work normally during this time. Can anyone shed light on
> what was going on??
>
> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:30:05 -0800
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
>
> Cannot append data to that file
Short answer (root cause): you've probably run out of disk space or file
permissions have changed. Look into rotating and compressing your system
logs with logrotate or equivalent.
Longer answer: It's not from SpamAssassin, it's from sar (man page from
SuSE 7.2):
"SAR(1) Linux User's Manual SAR(1)
NAME
sar - Collect, report, or save system activity informa-
tion.
[snip]
DESCRIPTION
The sar command writes to standard output the contents of
selected cumulative activity counters in the operating
system. The accounting system, based on the values in the
count and interval parameters, writes information the
specified number of times spaced at the specified inter-
vals in seconds. If the interval parameter is set to
zero, the sar command displays the average statistics for
the time since the system was started. The default value
for the count parameter is 1. If its value is set to zero,
then reports are generated continuously. The collected
data can also be saved in the file specified by the -o
filename flag, in addition to being displayed onto the
screen. If filename is omitted, sar uses the standard sys-
tem activity daily data file, the /var/log/sa/sadd file,
where the dd parameter indicates the current day.
The sar command extracts and writes to standard output
records previously saved in a file. This file can be
either the one specified by the -f flag or, by default,
the standard system activity daily data file."
hth,
--
Bob Apthorpe
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