From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 7:16: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (mx1.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.112.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C2237B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by mx1.hcvlny.cv.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8MEFxo05034 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from steinyv (d133-151.jcsnnj.optonline.net [24.189.133.151]) by s1.optonline.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8MEFwo11787 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:15:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000922095857.00a295e0@mail-hub.optonline.net> X-Sender: mvanberk@mail-hub.optonline.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:11:07 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Bigwillie Subject: The daemons are killing it(harddrive filling up part2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good news. The exorcist came in and cleansed the box. I killed sendmail and mail.local processes. There was a crontab file in /var/cron/tabs called "root" which was exactly the same as the on that I had in /etc/crontab. I deleted that, dumped the files out of the spool and dumped that ridiculous large email in /var/mail/. I rebooted and the box is quiet like a mouse. I already had the default seti@home client running, which wasn't the problem. I started the 2nd client (which was the one that I tried to enter into cron) manually, and its quietly number crunching looking for ET and the BORG. So all is good again. This was my first time fixing a problem without reinstalling, so put it in the archive so some other newbie can have an idea as to what to do. Thanks all for your insight. _________________________________________ Steiny's Studio Pachyderm Productions http://steiny.hypermart.net mailto:info@steiny.hypermart.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message