Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 14:55:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, chem@i-p-d.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem full Message-ID: <19980503145529.H356@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502214806.21194i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 09:48:53PM -0700 References: <199805021325.PAA29328@i-p-d.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502214806.21194i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, 2 May 1998 at 21:48:53 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 1998 chem@i-p-d.com wrote: > >> 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 > > Someone is trying to send a huge mail and you're running out of space for > it. Try remounting /tmp somewhere else (or creating a mfs for it) and see > if that helps. > > I set up sendmail to deny messages over 2 megs on my mailserver so it > won't crash it this way. Later versions of mail.local use /var/tmp for the temporary file. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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