From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 20 22: 5:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.tcworks.net (ns.tcworks.net [216.61.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EDE1543F for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Received: from tcworks.net (xcess@stuck.sticky.org [216.61.218.6]) by ns.tcworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA15474; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:02:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Message-ID: <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:02:23 -0600 From: Chris Cook X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jim Weeks , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: curious kernel log messages References: <388735A7.3922CA76@siteplus.com> <20000121110816.P481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think Greg is right, I've seen that same error message before which I tracked down to a 50MB email message that overflowed /tmp. == Chris Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 > > > > 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 > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message