From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 16:52:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11694 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 16:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11685 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 16:52:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA09351; Fri, 15 May 1998 09:22:44 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980515092244.K320@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 09:22:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: chem@i-p-d.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local filesystem full References: <199805141610.SAA02553@i-p-d.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805141610.SAA02553@i-p-d.com>; from chem@i-p-d.com on Thu, May 14, 1998 at 06:10:03PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message