Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:01:14 -0500 (EST) From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: File System Quotas + sendmail Message-ID: <smy28ei00YVp58TmAl@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199702050425.XAA05176@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <5d8uh7$1141@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <199702050425.XAA05176@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Excerpts from mail: 4-Feb-97 Re: File System Quotas + se.. by Charles Henrich@crh.cl.m > In lists.freebsd.questions you write: > > > >I recently enabled quotas on my various /home* file systems with great > >success (boy, are quotas a power trip :). I was wondering what the > >effects of installing quotas on my /var/mail partition would be? > >sendmail runs as root, so would it be affected by the quota limitations? > > I'd like users who send mail to accounts on my system that exceed quota > >limits on /var/mail to receive a bounce message pointing that out -- do > >I need to do any specific configuration to get this to work right? > > I submitted patches to mail.local quite some time ago -- I believe they made i > t > into the 2.2 tree at that time. One note you should only run quota's on one > filesystem on your system or problems may arise (or so the common rumor seems > to be). So you might want to move /var/mail to /home/var.mail and make > /var/mail a link.. I was unable to find reference to the multiple file-system problems you're referring to on a search of the freebsd-fs list, or questions (although I admit to not having looked hard on questions :).. Could you expound on that a little? I saw reference to not running it on the root file system (makes sense), but I have user home directories spread over several -- /home, /homea, /homeb, /homec, /homed -- which vary by utility and hard disk/controller in question.. It would be nice to be able to apply quota's to all. On a seperate note, I did have (and do have) them running on all my home partitions (although not on /var, /usr, or /.) Thanks for your response -- when 2.2 is released, I'll quota /var/mail/ then, assuming a clear answer on the safety of quota use on all partitions becomes available. Thanks, Robert Watson
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