From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 21 0: 8:27 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 662ED15138 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([203.197.137.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06948; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:37:58 +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 MAA01654; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:52:12 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:52:12 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Cook Cc: Jim Weeks , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: curious kernel log messages Message-ID: <20000121125212.Q1123@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <388735A7.3922CA76@siteplus.com> <20000121110816.P481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3887F66F.497AF474@tcworks.net>; from ccook@tcworks.net on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 12:02:23AM -0600 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 Friday, 21 January 2000 at 0:02:23 -0600, Chris Cook wrote: > 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. > > 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. It's definitely one possibility, and it's interesting that it's usually reported on the ISP list, not the -questions list. It doesn't have to be the only one. 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