/var/mail BOGUS files

From: Administrateur de systemes (sysadmin_at_DMS.UMontreal.CA)
Date: 08/16/04


Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:22:48 GMT

Hi all Linux gurus !

I have on my email server a series of BOGUS files .
It's a solaris 9 box with sendmail 8.10.12
My mailboxes ( /var/mail ) is mounted on all clients redhat
for beeing used for pine elm etc ...
here are the kinda of Bogus files

[1318][root@leonard:/]
> cd /var/mail

[1319][root@leonard:/var/mail]
> ls -lrt

.....

-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.tC
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.E
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.D
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.qG
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.eG
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.ZG
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody 1 Aug 16 13:14 BOGUS.root.8F

Where those come from ??? Procmail ? nfs ? clients like pine or dtmail ?
I don't know where to start looking from ...

Thanks for your help .
FG



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