Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:20:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alain Fabry <fabry@panam.edu> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mail.local -- file system full Message-ID: <19971104112044.48689@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BCE872.0DC129D0@mars.coserve.org>; from Alain Fabry on Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 04:03:40PM -0600 References: <01BCE872.0DC129D0@mars.coserve.org>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 04:03:40PM -0600, Alain Fabry wrote: > At bootup I get the following error > > pid 128 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full > > What does this mean and how can I solve this problem? It's surprising how common this is becoming. It's only been a day or two since the last one. Here's the last answer: mail.local copies mail messages into /tmp, and a couple of occasions people have received really enormous ones which have caused the root file system to overflow. I've entered a problem report, but here are some solutions: 1. Place /tmp on a file system with *much* more free space. 2. Use ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/mail.local, which implements the fix in point (3). 3. Apply this fix to /usr/src/libexec/mail.local/pathnames.h and do a 'make install' in that directory. --- pathnames.h 1994/05/27 12:39:19 1.1.1.1 +++ pathnames.h 1997/09/09 01:42:38 @@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ */ #include <paths.h> -#define _PATH_LOCTMP "/tmp/local.XXXXXX" +#define _PATH_LOCTMP "/var/tmp/local.XXXXXX" Greg
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