Someone at work has a misconfigured mail server on their Linux desktop machine. They are running a cron job that spews out mail messages (errors from a wonky find command to prune email messages it seems). These messages find their way to the university's mail server, and slows it down. It happened a month ago or so too, and then there was about 10-50 messages or more each second.
@FaheemMitha The admins of the main mailserver are very different from the admins of the domain sending the mails. The university is a large organisation, and I doubt these people ever meet. The local admins should know whose machine it is sending the mail based on its IP, but there seems to be some difficulty tracking people down over the summer.
In any case, the user was eventually found, and claims he has "fixed it". It's unclear whether this means he's fixed the faulty command or corrected his machine's mail server config.
@Kusalananda Choice is a good thing, certainly. But so is not causing problems for other people. For example, having ones computer infected and made part of a botnet probably won't make the world a better place.
I used to run some Debian machines ion the UNC and Duke networks once upon a time. I appreciated being able to do that.
Sadly, Duke isn't interested in Debian. Historically the Triangle Universities have run Red Hat and their derivatives.
@Kusalananda Yeah I'm pretty good at drinking beers from all over the world my prefered being the german's and belgium's beers (it depends of the circumstance)
@PrabhjotSingh What I meant is simply that I'm very happy about the World Cup I remember the one 20 years ago I was 9 there's a lot of emotion in this victory, but I take no proud of it. I didn't win, a great team of French guys did
@PrabhjotSingh I know but for any reason it could be that your parents if you leave at there place don't want it or whatever reasons, there's so many culture you can never know all the custom of a country. I find myself learning some of them in French family that I never heard before everyday.
@FaheemMitha Not really. Woke up sweaty (because it's +32 degrees and somehow I had managed to get the duvet on top of me) and dazed. Coffee has sorted me out to some degree though, and water.
@FaheemMitha We do have "tropical nights" at the moment, meaning the night temperature does not drop below +20, but it certainly drops below +30. Indoors is a different matter, but I think it'll drop here too, eventually.
@terdon if you're around, would you mind dropping a comment on a deleted question? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/456831/… The asker deleted after I pointed out some background material to show that their question wasn't precise enough, then they deleted because they thought that other question is a duplicate, but now that they've clarified their question (in the comments at least), it is not a duplicate
So I'd like to recommend that they undelete, but since they've deleted, I can't reply