Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> To: George Ellenburg <gme@inspace.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quota and Mail Spool Files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971010152215.8861B-100000@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971010134329.3390A-100000@nova.ispace.com>
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, George Ellenburg wrote: > We are running FBSD 2.2.2, Sendmail 8.8.7, and have quotas enabled. > > /var and /home are separate file systems. > > My users have a quotas of 5000 1k blocks on /var and /home separately, > however I'm noticing that the quotas are not working properly on /var. > > Users are able to fill their mailbox and exceed the 5000 1k block limit in > /var/mail. Anyone have any clues or suggestions as to why this is > happening? Quotas are working fine on the /home file-system (which are > actually two separate hard drives). Thanks in advance. This is because localmail runs as root and is not bound by the quotas. We had to hack our own version of localmail to explicitly check the quota. Also, sendmail had to be hacked to return a "box full" error.
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