Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:28:34 +0000 From: chem@i-p-d.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: filesystem full Message-ID: <199805021325.PAA29328@i-p-d.com>
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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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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