Subject: strange process filling root
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/06/2001 13:35:26
hi...

i keep seeing this in my logs:

Aug  4 04:41:00 potomac /netbsd: uid 32767 on /: file system full
Aug  4 04:41:06 potomac last message repeated 7 times

i think on a cpl of occasions this has stalled my box so that console/telnet 
dont respond it has to be hard booted. there are no other logs around this 
time.

uid 32767 is the user 'nobody' so what process is filling up my root?

the following turned up nothing at all:

potomac# find / \( -user 32767 -or -group 39 \) -print

and:

potomac# df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       24863    20117     3502    85%    /
/dev/sd0d       31063     5755    23754    19%    /var
/dev/sd0g     1827282   856222   879695    49%    /usr

/home is soft linked to /usr/home. ok so root partition isnt very big but what 
is filling it up? the closest thing to 4:41am in crontab is:

30      4       *       *       6       /bin/sh /etc/weekly 2>&1 | tee \ 
/var/log/weekly.out | sendmail -t
 
user nobody has no shell no login and no home directory. there is no password 
in /etc/master.passwd (just *). what is nobody up to? suggestions?

cheer

GREG