[BlueOnyx:06658] Re: vacation.pl oddities

[Roy Urick]

Supposedly the openwebmail version works. The one that is broken is the one
accessed via the user control panel. 

With 800 mailboxes, touching all of the .forward files is not an option. We
need a way to prevent it from running even if instructed by the server. 

-----Original Message-----
From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On
Behalf Of Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:16 PM
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:06657] Re: vacation.pl oddities


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Urick" <rurick at usa.net>
To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:44 AM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:06656] Re: vacation.pl oddities


> Thanks Ken, but that wont quite help.
>
> Quite often you cant kill the process because it gets locked up so badly.
> The only way to kill the process in that case is an "init 6". I've so far
> had to reboot our server 4x in as many hours today to fix the problem 
> after
> trying repeatedly to kill the process various ways... by PID causes it to
> spawn a new one instantly.  Killing by the user, or killall by process 
> name
> simply doesn't do a thing. Neither errors that nothing was killed, it just
> is ineffective.
>
> The only reliable way to stop it is to prevent it from running in the 
> first
> place. But I just don't want to disable it in a way that breaks something
> else. (other than maybe adding log file entries)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] 
> On
> Behalf Of Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:20 PM
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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06654] Re: vacation.pl oddities
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Roy Urick
> To: blueonyx at blueonyx.it
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:26 AM
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06653] vacation.pl oddities
>
>
> This is a little bit OT, but I know a lot of you are familiar with BQ as
> well.
>
> We are currently running a BQ server, and are in the process of migrating
> away to a BlueOnyx server. We aren't quite ready to pull the trigger on 
> the
> migration due to hardware that is still in transit, but we have a major
> issue with our old box that needs desperate attention in the interim.
>
> We have a handful of users that when they activate the vacation reply, it
> starts vacation.pl and pegs out the CPU for each message inbound with no
> apparent output. Eventually the user account will have multiple instances 
> of
>
> vacation.pl running to the point the CPU is maxed at 100%, sendmail 
> crashes,
>
> the GUI locks, etc. Other users don't seem to have any problems with it 
> and
> it runs fine.
>
> I've seen google results where gurus like Gerald Waugh and others have
> somewhat reproduced the problem but cant find a solution, I've had others
> look at our box and come to the same (lack of) conclusion.
>
> Even though the user's account  who caused the last problem has been reset
> to turn off the script it continues to flare up intermittently. It appears
> that Its time to disable it for the short term so it cant possibly run.
>
> What is the best (most stable and reliable) way to disable vacation.pl so 
> it
>
> cant possibly run? Rename it so it cant be found by other scripts that 
> call
> it? Add something to the first line to make it exit immediately if it does
> get called?
>>>
>
>
> Roy
>
> I've seen that on sites / users that are over quota.
>
> You could also set up a cron to kill the vaction.pl
>
> Something like
> */2   *   *  *  *  killall -9 vacation.pl
>
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> http://www.precisionweb.net
>
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Roy,

Is it the vacation.pl from the  /admin  or the one that you can set up from 
the  /openwebmail  ?

You could deactivate the one that is not working by editing the
.forward file in each users directory.

You can check for vacation.pl in the  .forward file using
grep vacation /home/sites/*.*/users/*/.forward

Then edit those .forwward files.

----
Ken M
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net





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