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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:58:26 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
Cc:        Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk quota overriding
Message-ID:  <36F10682.1028368F@newsguy.com>
References:  <199903181243.BAA22599@aniwa.sky>

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Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> 
> I don't use quotas, and don't know a great deal about how they operate, but I think there's another disk filling DOS involving hard links lurking which the above measure would also solve.
> 
> If a user starts making hard links to (large and growing) log files, with the new links being placed in /var/mail, then presumably those log files will not be deleted correctly as they are rolled over, and will quickly accumulate.

And what the f* is the user doing with read access to the log
directory?

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