temporary file spawning

[Julian Field]

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Ade Fewings wrote:

> 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?

Advise you try increasing
SpamAssassin Timeout
in MailScanner.conf.

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