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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:04:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Phillip Salzman <phill@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Cook <ccook@tcworks.net>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: curious kernel log messages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001211001230.25314-100000@dumbo.familyinet.net>
In-Reply-To: <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net>

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Or, you could be out of inodes.  Try df -i

I run cyrus on an extra email server, and it creates
a seperate file for each message.  It's happened there, maybe
you have a simular problem.

--
Phillip Salzman

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Chris Cook wrote:

> 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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