Thanks, John, but now I'm totally baffled and suspicious that something's really screwed up. What do you make of this transcript:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/peter]$ cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ ls -la total 26 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 5 2006 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 1024 May 23 2006 .. -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 644 Mar 1 2006 apache.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 676 Feb 28 2006 clamav-clamd.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 711 Feb 28 2006 clamav-freshclam.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 887 Mar 2 2006 mrtg_daemon.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1623 Mar 3 2006 pure-ftpd.sh lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Mar 1 2006 qmail.sh -> /var/qmail/rc -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 669 Feb 28 2006 sa-spamd.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 755 Feb 28 2006 snmpd.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 816 Feb 28 2006 snmptrapd.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2240 Feb 27 2006 svscan.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 511 Apr 5 2006 webmin.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ sa-spamd.sh stop bash: sa-spamd.sh: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ clamav-clamd.sh stop bash: clamav-clamd.sh: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ How is it possible that the commands aren't found? They're right there in the directory? And, FYI, there are now 77,314 messages in the remote queue -- 25,000 more than were there yesterday. ------ At 07:37 PM 8/19/2007, John Thompson wrote: >On 2007-08-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. The >> machine is receiving 200,000 e-mail messages per day, courtesy of >> Rumpelstiltskin attacks from thousands of different IP addresses each >> day, and SpamAssassin appears to be overwhelmed. I have about 50,000 >> e-mail messages in my qmail queue and the queue is growing by more >> than 1,000 e-mail messages per hour. >> >> I want to temporarily disable SpamAssassin to free up enough >> resources to let the mail queue clear. How do I do that? > >#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd stop > >> If anyone knows how to temporarily disable ClamAV too, I'd be >> ecstatic to learn how to do that too. > >Disable the daemon: >#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd stop > >Disable the sendmail milter: >#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter stop > >You may want to configure your MTA to reject bogus messages during the >SMTP negotiation to decrease the spamassassin load. > >-- > >John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
