From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 10:26:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megared.net.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D4415526 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.252]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA37167 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:26:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <02be01bee80c$74ed1a60$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Server Almost Crashed!!! Please Help!!! Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:26:21 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have detected a problem in my system, I have FreeBSD 3.2 with sendmail 8.9.3, Procmail-3.13.1, and disk Quotas; I have searched the sendmail site and I didnt find anything usefull to solve my problem: all my users have 5MB of disk Quotas, the problem happened when 1 of my users that have his quota filled, send a mail to another user who has his quota filed too, the message wasnt to big, 250KB, but when procmail sended a message to sendmail that the quota was exceded, sendmail send a message to root, and tried to return the mail to the original sender, but this user also has his quota exceded, so the mail kept bouncing and trying to be sent all the night, and sendmail kept sending messages to root, an filling the file system, when I came back today, my file system was at 98% filled, in my home directory (I have a forward from root to my personal account), I had 3000 messages of 250KB, and my .mail file was like 7.5GB of size, I had to stop sendmail server and cleaned the mail queue of this mails and then restarted the process, I already know that I can make all this messages that are sent to root to go to trash, with a very simple script in the .procmailrc file, appending the matching subject to /dev/null, but sendmail will not stop from sending and sending the mail and keeping the procesor used and some resources, its there any way to avoid this situation of happening again, its there somethig that I could tell sendmail to discard the message if in X ftime hasnt been sent (in this case). I have already searched the sendmail site, but I couldnt find anything usefull, if someone can help me, I will appreciate this very much. Thanks in Advance Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message