Re: Exchange 2003 - Massive amounts of .log files being generated

Uh oh.
Safety goggles on.

I moved logs from the previous day on back. Nothing for the current day.
Hopefully this makes it less damaging?
I've got TrendMicro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange 7.0 installed and
current on filters.
There were only two messages in the quarantine folder with viruses.
I'm also running IMF, which kills most of the crap before it gets into the
store.

I'm not seeing anything in the event logs related to message loops.
I did have a message looping about three years, and these did show up in the
logs.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
Thanks,

Paul


"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:00:07 -0400, "Paul M. Landry"
<plandry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,
I have an Exchange 2003 SP2 server.
Two days ago, a tremendous amount of E*.log files started appearing in the
mdbdata directory.
I'm talking about three 5 MB log files appearing every minute.
I became aware of the problem when my monitoring software registered low
disk space on the server.
I've been moving these files off to another drive, but am running out of
space there.
Has anyone else had this happen?
What can I do to prevent this from happening.
I'm backing up Exchange each night, with Backup Exec 10d ( a full data
store, and then individual mailboxes).
Not sure if this info helps, but that has been in place for almost two
years, without this kind of problem.
Thanks,

Paul Landry

These would be your database transaction logs. And moving those log
files was just about the worst thing you could have told us, almost.

What you probably have is a message loop, a virus in there somewhere
or the anti virus is scanning your databases.


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