Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:49:11 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Phil Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "File too large" error when appending to a file of 130 MB Message-ID: <20120221094911.GD37684@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <98300781-0B38-45FA-9BA7-737619BA07F5@nevada.net.nz> References: <20120219213607.GO31770@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> <98300781-0B38-45FA-9BA7-737619BA07F5@nevada.net.nz>
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Hi Phil, On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:24:39PM +1300, Phil Murray wrote: > > On 20/02/2012, at 10:36 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > > I have a problem with procmail which gets a "File too large" error when > > it tries to write at the end of some mailbox file. > > Is procmail running from Postfix (or some other MTA)? I've hit this > problem where Postfix has set a filesize ulimit, which all the scripts > spawned from Postfix will inherit. > > In my case, I had a script that was hitting the filesize limit trying > to log it's results to a logfile that doesn't get rotated. I imagine > the same thing could happen with procmail, if postfix was calling it. Yes that was the problem indeed. Someone already contacted me (privately, but I didn't notice at that time) pointing out the problem. I've disabled the mailbox_size_limit in Postfix and the problem vanished. Thanks for your help. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen Men are born free and equal. Later on, they're on their own. Jean Yanne
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