I had the same thing happen with my system, and as mentioned by others, after running Netscape.
What occurred, was that a message was being sent via mail through the system to an adress (actually a real address), with some dummy message. The message then seemed to multiply itself and bounced back and forth with the mail delivery system, taking so much CPU time that it eventually overfilled the system. Solution... I simply cleaned the spooling directories (mail queues, etc.), and in my case simply stopped running the program that caused it (Netscape). Daemons queue their data, when bouncing it back and forth, and if the only thing to do is to kill off the daemon, and then clean the data the daemon was working on... before starting it again, if the data isn't cleaned it will just restart where it left off. Personally, I would suggest that anyone running a program that creates such a ceizure... throw them out of their system (...and neither buy, or otherwise take active or inactive part in the evolution of such programs). Whatever programmer includes such code in a product, is most likely to include other codes equally nasty... that will eventually even "tease" regularly paying customers. ...and if you want the service, the program provides. Request the service from an ISP and run the programs remote. With X windows this is easy, and will also enable you to make firewalls against such misconduct. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
