From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 10 12:25:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02110 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:25:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA02105 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA09098; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: George Ellenburg cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quota and Mail Spool Files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.