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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:02:23 -0600
From:      Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: curious kernel log messages
Message-ID:  <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net>
References:  <388735A7.3922CA76@siteplus.com> <20000121110816.P481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>

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I think Greg is right, I've seen that same error message before which I
tracked down to a 50MB email message that overflowed /tmp.

==
Chris


Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 20 January 2000 at 11:19:51 -0500, Jim Weeks wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone seen this one before.
> >
> > kernel log messages:
> >>  0 on /var: file system full
> >
> 
> Check your incoming mail spool.  Some idiot may have sent a 70 MB mail
> message, and by default mail.local will copy it to /tmp, which is on
> the root file system on your machine.  I've committed a "fix" which
> won't help much: it puts it on /var/tmp instead of /tmp, but your /var
> is too small to handle it.
> 
> Greg
> --


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