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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 21:48:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        chem@i-p-d.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem full
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502214806.21194i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805021325.PAA29328@i-p-d.com>

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On Sat, 2 May 1998 chem@i-p-d.com wrote:

> I am a newbie at FreeBSD and Unix and I did not set up the system I 
> am working with.
> 
> In my messages-log I have been getting the following line every half 
> an hour:
> 
>  /kernel: pid 29233 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full

Someone is trying to send a huge mail and you're running out of space for
it.  Try remounting /tmp somewhere else (or creating a mfs for it) and see
if that helps.

I set up sendmail to deny messages over 2 megs on my mailserver so it
won't crash it this way.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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