Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 13:15:17 +0000 From: "Þorður Ivarsson" <totii@est.is> To: gaof@public.intercom.com.cn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about quota Message-ID: <348BF2E5.E79D3A19@est.is> References: <348BA700.B54144AC@public.intercom.com.cn>
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Gao Fei wrote: > > I have some questions about quota. > I edquota one user's quota to 1M,but his can get mail larger than 1M. > then this user get mail, system tell him/her quota exceed. > another strange thing, if this user get 800K mail,when he/she get > mail,system > also tell him/her quota exceed,it seemed,when one user get mail,system > copy > his mail.so his/her quota exceed. > Please tell me why? Sendmail is running as 'root' and writes to the /var/mail throug local mailer that runns as 'root'. Root has no quotas and therefor does not limit what user gets from Sendmail. When user fetches his mail, his mail is copied to temporary file, under users name, that has quota, that has exeded! -- Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson Ísland Iceland --------------------------------------------- FreeBSD has good features, Some others are full of unwanted features! ---------------------------------------------
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