Re: Battle of Spam

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:34:23PM -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: > I think I must have misstated the problem. Thanks to everyone for the replies, but the question > is not how to fix it, it's how to find the script being attacked. Many different admins manage > many different sites on this server, and I can't even begin to guess how many mail forms are on > there from different programmers. > > I'm currently downloading the logs as Peter suggested, and will take a look. I'm not > much of a sysad and I just thought maybe someone might know a way to sniff outgoing email or > something, I really don't know how to attack this. Fixing the scripts is a long term solution, > obviously, but I need a short term fix other than killing email on the apache account. > > Might be more of a Linux question than a PHP question. One other piece of information maybe you left out. You say there are many admins of many sites on this box. Do you *work* for the company that owns or rents the box or something? Otherwise, other admins' scripts aren't your problem, just your scripts. Paul -- Paul M. Foster