On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com wrote:
"David R. Linn" <drl(_at_)vuse(_dot_)vanderbilt(_dot_)edu> wrote:
[anj(_at_)vonneumann(_dot_)cs(_dot_)uakron(_dot_)edu wrote:]
That's helpful, but actually I'm looking for *why* they appear and how to
stop it from happening, if anyone can tell me.
From the procmail HISTORY file
1997/04/28: v3.11pre7
Changes to procmail:
- Cater for a race condition that occurs if two procmails
try to create an empty system mailbox (bogus BOGUS.* files)
As a guess, you share your mailspool via NFS and on one or more of the
nonservers someone is trying to run procmail as root
I was just coming back to post the following when I saw David's post.
The BOGUS issue has come up before on this list. Here's one entry I
found quickly -- it may or may not be as informative as some others.
Suggest you search the archives further, but primarily, it does seem
like it could be a permissions issue.
http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2001-08/msg00051.html
I too have had a similar type problem though not nearly as severe as
Anjanette's. I clean them out every so often but they aren't usually much
of a problem. For example, at present... (this is going to wrap, sorry)
[oak ~]$> ls -lt /var/mail/spool/BOGUS*
-rw-rw---- 1 jclymer mail 22465 Nov 27 11:49
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.ecpubwks.pMQ
-rw-rw---- 1 rond smmsp 0 Nov 12 01:45
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.misterzen.Q-n
-rw-rw---- 1 kymbo mail 5821212 Nov 4 06:12
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.corbett.iHQ
-rw-rw---- 1 husker1 mail 6790346 Oct 30 13:40
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.lance.eaQ
-rw-rw---- 1 ckhowell mail 2549782 Oct 20 06:45
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.marsha.xdQ
-rw-rw---- 1 kyles smmsp 0 Oct 17 23:50
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.robby.1_P
-rw-rw---- 1 rickg smmsp 0 Oct 8 16:56
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.alisag.PSo
-rw-rw---- 1 bluetwo mail 412192 Sep 23 09:00
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.backwood.YAQ
-rw-rw---- 1 lkeopke smmsp 2321 Sep 20 14:52
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.shana.vEQ
-rw-rw---- 1 suzannec mail 0 Aug 18 07:27
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.mil.QfQ
-rw-rw---- 1 jmhuss mail 1367 Aug 18 00:27
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.jlsbk.wVQ
-rw-rw---- 1 dsfarm mail 5182 Aug 18 00:26
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.pitcrew.vjQ
-rw-rw---- 1 richey mail 4411 Aug 18 00:26
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.codemaster.OHQ
-rw-rw---- 1 kangels mail 7547 Mar 28 2002
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.jerryg.FVQ
-rw-rw---- 1 angel mail 2770790 Jan 8 2002
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.pennyj.ajQ
-rw-rw---- 1 ulam mail 5130058 Sep 4 2001
/var/mail/spool/BOGUS.lrdrake.YcQ
All of the users in BOGUS.$USER.random exist but as you can see they
aren't the same as the user that owns the file. I'm using 3.22 and my
mail spools local to this mail system and aren't NFS mounted anywhere.
Home directories are mounted from another server though. I never have
figured out whats causing them. BTW, this is a RH 7.2 box running
Sendmail 8.12.6.
Justin
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