[BlueOnyx:01685] Re: Sendmail attack, again

Bobby U II bobbyu2 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 09:58:55 -05 2009


You can use the find command and then pipe it to rm

Do this from your mqueue directory.

 find . -name 'filename' | xargs rm



On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Steve Davis <steve at zio.com> wrote:

> Thought I was all finished with this. Had firewall rules set to block the
> numerous IP's attacking the server, however, it was not enough.
>
> My /var folder is 100% full. Most of it in the /var/spool/mqueue
>
> But I cannot delete or look at the files, when i try to
> [root at raq1 mqueue]# rm -f *
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>
> anyone have any ideas.
>
> Also, none of the mail on this server is relevant. It is not being used as
> a mail server, for the most part.
>
> Steve
>
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