temporary file spawning

[Ade Fewings]

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Following up with more details on my own email.........

> We have two mail servers running on Solaris 9 Sparc.  Sendmail 8.12.10
> utilizing MailScanner 4.36.4 to call SpamAssassin 3.0.1.  Earlier
> today, one of our large mailing lists got hit a couple of times and
> the servers got a bit busy.  However, something went wrong and /tmp
> filled up with
> spamassassin.25755.Bdgxlb.tmp esque files.  Hundred of thousands were
> created in a short time, running /tmp out of i-nodes and thus
> effectively stopping MailScanner.
>
> Killing MailScanner, cleaning /tmp and restarting would then reproduce
> the problem again soon after.  I truss'd the output of a few of the
> MailScanner processes that were going bad and all they were doing was
> trying to open new files in /tmp.

We have further discovered that this problem definitely only occurs when
MailScanner is set to use SpamAssassin.  Switch off SpamAssassin and
there are zero problems.  So, being relatively unknowledgable about
MailScanner, the question that comes up is what is creating these
temporary files?  It is either SpamAssassin itself or something in
MailScanner that gets switched on when you tell it to use SpamAssassin.

Can anybody offer any guidance on whether MailScanner itself creates
these files?

Cheers
Ade

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School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor,
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