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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:15:27 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
Cc:        Alvaro Gil <alvaro@vrx.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP incoming directory.  Damned Hooligans.
Message-ID:  <20030106081527.GC1094@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20030106002857.P74359-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
References:  <p05111702ba3ec12b0d4a@[192.168.1.100]> <20030106002857.P74359-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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On 2003-01-06 00:35, Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> wrote:
> Alvaro Gil wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG:
> > I was trying to upload some stuff on my server today and I realized
> > the /user partition was 100% full.  After investigating a bit I
> > found that the public ftp incoming directory I had set up for some
> > friends as full of directories and sub directories.
>
> If you still for some reason need to grant anonymous upload privilege
> (I can't really see why), then I'd advise looking into a more
> sophisticated FTP daemon that can implement storage quotas. (ProFTPd
> is one such application).

Alternatively, you could always limit the /incoming directory by
creating a sufficiently large file and mounting that with vnconfig.
This has the added advantage that it works regardless of the specific
ftpd program that is used :)


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