[RndTbl] Obscure Solaris email?

Robert Keizer robert at keizer.ca
Thu Oct 24 10:00:19 CDT 2013


grep -R emailaddress at thatis.getting.emails.ca /

Horrible.. and would thrash your disk.. but it would find it.

Rob


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Kevin McGregor
<kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>wrote:

> We've been getting email from one of our Solaris 10 servers, and I can't
> figure out precisely where it's coming from. It's a system call "Auto
> Service Request" or ASR, and produces and email like this:
> You requested the following events be forwarded to you from wwdsvpciss2
>
> Site       : City of Winnipeg 510 Main St
> Agent      : wwdsvpciss2
> Severity   : Major
> Category   : agent
> Device Id  : wwdsvpciss2
> Topic      : System
> Event Type : NotifierFailedEvent
> Event Code : 4.72.582
> Event Date : 2013-09-26 03:29:30
>
> Description:
> An attempt to contact the ASR server resulted in a Connection timed out
> failure.
>
>
> Probable Cause:
> The ASR has indicated a problem processing the posted data.
> The cause may be due to an internal server failure, invalid settings
> locally, or due to the
>
>
> Recommended Action:
> Examine the reason indicated in the description.
> If the reason indicates a server failure, then back end support will need
> to be notified.
> If the connection was refused, verify the Sun Connection Configuration
> settings first, then verify with back end support that the server is
> operational.
>
>
> It seems like there is a package responsible for this called "SUNWswasr"
> except that's not installed on this machine! I've checked all kinds of logs
> and it also doesn't seem to have a trace in crontab. Magic? Please suggest
> some other places to look! We want to stop getting these messages or at
> least direct them to a different account.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
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