Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 09:22:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: chem@i-p-d.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local filesystem full Message-ID: <19980515092244.K320@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805141610.SAA02553@i-p-d.com>; from chem@i-p-d.com on Thu, May 14, 1998 at 06:10:03PM %2B0000 References: <199805141610.SAA02553@i-p-d.com>
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On Thu, 14 May 1998 at 18:10:03 +0000, chem@i-p-d.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have succeeded in changing the path of the tempfiles of mail.local
> from /temp to /var/temp. Thanks to everybody who helped me out.
> But now I get the following message:
>
> May 14 17:47:31 /kernel: pid 2427 (mail.local), uid 0 on /var:
> file system full
>
> This is what is available:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a 31823 21494 7784 73% /
> /dev/wd0s1f 2640814 626023 1803526 26% /usr
> /dev/wd0s1e 248175 130509 97812 57% /var
>
> Anybody got any ideas on what I should do next?
It looks like somebody has sent you an *enormous* mail message (well
over 50 MB). The problem with mail.local is that it copies the
message from /var/spool/mqueue to (now) /var/tmp. You have two
possibilities:
1. Move it again, this time to /usr (I see you have enough space
there :-)
2. Go through /var/spool/mail and locate the large message, and
delete it.
You can also set up sendmail to automatically reject messages which
are larger than a certain value by setting the M= equate for the
mailer. I'd go for the 1MB range.
Greg
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