Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:52:12 +0530 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net> Cc: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: curious kernel log messages Message-ID: <20000121125212.Q1123@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net>; from ccook@tcworks.net on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 12:02:23AM -0600 References: <388735A7.3922CA76@siteplus.com> <20000121110816.P481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net>
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On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 0:02:23 -0600, Chris Cook wrote: > 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. > > 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. It's definitely one possibility, and it's interesting that it's usually reported on the ISP list, not the -questions list. It doesn't have to be the only one. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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