Hey Bombers,Here is something I'd like to run by you all. I'm a newbie bomber getting better each week. I fully understand GBomb and how to set it up. However I'm still a newb. I believe I may have wrongly set something up. I'll try and be brief.
On one of my domain accounts GBomb crashed? failed? I dunno what the heck happened. I have it running fine other domains. Anyway, I checked my inbox and found it flooded with the following message:
ZineBomb - ERROR:
cannot lock file
Context: data/cron.lck
Reason: Resource temporarily unavailable
I went into the configuration for this domain and all looked fine. Went to domain admin and my database was gone and I couldn't create another. I later found out my host suspended my account.
I went and deleted the crontab entry sending me the email alerts. and I got this final message shortly there after:
DBI connect('database=userID_database;host=localhost','userID_dbuser',...) failed: Lost connection to MySQL server during query at lib/Gamma/Database.pm line 35 ZineBomb - ERROR:
cannot connect to MySQL
Context: database=userID_database;host=localhost
Reason: Lost connection to MySQL server during query ZineBomb - FATAL ERROR:
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at lib/Gamma/App/Cron.pm line 128.
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'userID' would be not be the real id and 'database' is not the real database name. 'dbuser' is not the real db user I created.
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Okay, I'm not sure what happened but not being the Linux guru I know some of you guys are and not being familiar with cron, I realized that I left my crontab settings at the default so when my account had the error, crontab was alerting ever other minute.
My host said that I was flooding the server but because I'm one of their best customers and I notified them at the time it was happening (I happen to have been at my pc at the time checking email) that they would not fine me or terminate my account. I would be in suspension for an unspecified period. I still am as I write this.
Can someone tell me if my crontab settings caused a flooding of messages on the server, or was it something prior to the crontab messages based on the GBomb error above. I can't tell whether the database died first or after the fact before the messages were sent. I don't even know if the 'flooding' is a reference to the cron alerts.
I asked my host to help me understand what 'flooding' the server means so that I can understand how to avoid causing the problem in the future but they haven't helped me. Now I'm nervous. I know the bombs are solid and I'm going to use them still. My concern is whether it might have been something on my end or technically on their servers. Like I said I'm running several bombs fine and Gbomb on at least 2-3 other domains successfully. I have two accounts with this host and don't want my other account shutdown before I can move and I'm waiting to get the shutdown account backup.
I know this is long and I'm not asking for absolute answers just some insight and guidance on flooding, crontab settings and just trying to make sure in general if these messages mean anything to the more experienced among us. My host is usually very responsive but they have not answered my request for information on exactly what happend and how to fix it, crontab settings, mysql, etc. Nothing from them.
Oh, for good recommendations and tips on good hosting (both shared and dedicated) just point me to the proper thread as I'm sure that has been discussed somewhere around here also. 
Thank you.
~Thomas
PS...kind of long I know and I apologize. Thank you for indulging me on this.