From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 21:49:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02500 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:49:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02485 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21726; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:48:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chem@i-p-d.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem full In-Reply-To: <199805021325.PAA29328@i-p-d.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message