From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 16:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA18088 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA18074 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA22811; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:20:44 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971104112044.48689@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:20:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alain Fabry Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: mail.local -- file system full References: <01BCE872.0DC129D0@mars.coserve.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <01BCE872.0DC129D0@mars.coserve.org>; from Alain Fabry on Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 04:03:40PM -0600 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 04:03:40PM -0600, Alain Fabry wrote: > At bootup I get the following error > > pid 128 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full > > What does this mean and how can I solve this problem? It's surprising how common this is becoming. It's only been a day or two since the last one. Here's the last answer: mail.local copies mail messages into /tmp, and a couple of occasions people have received really enormous ones which have caused the root file system to overflow. I've entered a problem report, but here are some solutions: 1. Place /tmp on a file system with *much* more free space. 2. Use ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/mail.local, which implements the fix in point (3). 3. Apply this fix to /usr/src/libexec/mail.local/pathnames.h and do a 'make install' in that directory. --- pathnames.h 1994/05/27 12:39:19 1.1.1.1 +++ pathnames.h 1997/09/09 01:42:38 @@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ */ #include -#define _PATH_LOCTMP "/tmp/local.XXXXXX" +#define _PATH_LOCTMP "/var/tmp/local.XXXXXX" Greg