From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 0:15:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AB737B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:15:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5E143E4A for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:15:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a233.otenet.gr [212.205.215.233]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h068FS4V011931; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:15:29 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h068FRbj001289; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:15:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h068FRpA001288; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:15:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:15:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ryan Thompson Cc: Alvaro Gil , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP incoming directory. Damned Hooligans. Message-ID: <20030106081527.GC1094@gothmog.gr> References: <20030106002857.P74359-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030106002857.P74359-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-01-06 00:35, Ryan Thompson 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 :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message