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Hi,

I am a newbie at FreeBSD and Unix and I did not set up the system I 
am working with.

In my messages-log I have been getting the following line every half 
an hour:

 /kernel: pid 29233 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full

I have read the answer of Greg Lehey a few months back about making a 
patch to pathnames.h. I am afraid I am a REAL newbie and I can't 
figure out exactly what to do.

Does this mean if I download the file in point 2 and do a make 
install that than automatically the lines in point 3 are added to 
pathnames.h? Like I said: I am a real newbie.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Gina

>mail.local copies  mail messages into  /tmp, and a couple of 
>occasions people have received  really enormous ones which  have 
>caused the root file system to overflow.  I've entered a problem  
>report, but here are some solutions:
>
>1.  Place /tmp on a file system with *much* more free space.
>
>2.  Use ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/mail.local, which implements the fix
>    in point (3).
>
>3.  Apply this fix to /usr/src/libexec/mail.local/pathnames.h and do 
>a    'make install' in that directory.
>
>--- pathnames.h 1994/05/27 12:39:19     1.1.1.1
>+++ pathnames.h 1997/09/09 01:42:38
>@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@
>  */
> #include <paths.h>
>
>-#define _PATH_LOCTMP   "/tmp/local.XXXXXX"
>+#define _PATH_LOCTMP   "/var/tmp/local.XXXXXX"





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