Re: Excessive Out going Traffic

[Dan Horth <dan nitro com au>]

do you have your sendmail set up with anti-spam? check your mail queue
(use command mailq) 

may be someone's using you as a spam relay?

you can also just do a netstat to see what active network conenctions you
have open...

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Robert Canary wrote:

> For about a week now I have been getting these maxed out spikes of
> outgoing traffic about 15min past the hour every hour.  to night they
> are especially bad at prolonged times of upto an hour.  Dose anyone know
> of away to find out what sort of traffic is being sent over an ether and
> specifically what process is causing it?