From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 9:29: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D7237B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from symbion.srrc.usda.gov (symbion.srrc.usda.gov [199.133.86.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9142F43E6A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov) Received: from node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by symbion.srrc.usda.gov (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g99GT3n4047793 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:29:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g99GT3hm047792 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:29:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:29:03 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail mail temp file limit Message-ID: <20021009162903.GA47672@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Johnson , questions@freebsd.org References: <20021009161904.GA47526@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021009161904.GA47526@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:19:04AM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I run rsync nightly via periodic to "mirror" my home directories to > a secondary machine. I just did a major file cleanup so the rsync > output would be large. Consequently, the resulting e-mail sent was > large. I got the following message instead of the message with > details of the rsync process: > > *** Mail of at least 7127040 bytes could not be accepted > *** at node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov due to lack of disk space for temp file. > *** Currently, 4 kilobytes are available for mail temp files. > > I know what was in the message and am not concerned about it but am > curious about the size limit. I have much more space available than 4 > kilobytes so am wondering where this limit is being set. Never mind; I see the problem now. I was looking at the space available where my tmp directory is but the temp file was going into /var/spool/mqueue, where I do not have as much space and so filled up that filesystem. -- Glenn Johnson USDA, ARS, SRRC Phone: (504) 286-4252 New Orleans, LA 70124 e-mail: gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message