From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 20 21:43:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB0E153D9 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([203.197.137.151]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06749; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:08:29 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00956; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:08:17 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:08:16 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: Jim Weeks Cc: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: curious kernel log messages Message-ID: <20000121110816.P481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <388735A7.3922CA76@siteplus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <388735A7.3922CA76@siteplus.com>; from jim@siteplus.com on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:19:51AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 20 January 2000 at 11:19:51 -0500, Jim Weeks wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone seen this one before. > > kernel log messages: >> 0 on /var: file system full > > Especially with this, > > Disk status: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s2a 99183 25758 65491 28% / > /dev/da1s1e 8617423 1771423 6156607 22% /bak > /dev/da0s2f 7813726 1209641 5978987 17% /usr > /dev/da0s2e 99183 29651 61598 32% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > I am confused, Check your incoming mail spool. Some idiot may have sent a 70 MB mail message, and by default mail.local will copy it to /tmp, which is on the root file system on your machine. I've committed a "fix" which won't help much: it puts it on /var/tmp instead of /tmp, but your /var is too small to handle it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message