Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:37:20 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Michael Hancock <mhancock@nfld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Adam Migus <amigus@compusult.nf.ca> Subject: Re: quota on a mail spool directory - help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010151027480.72836-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <013701c0353e$b5959ee0$d23dc5c0@compusult.nf.ca>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mail is being written to /var/mail as root, bypassing quotas.
You can try playing with the -b flag (man mail.local) or switch to
procmail as the local deliverer.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Michael Hancock wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:25:00 -0230
> From: Michael Hancock <mhancock@nfld.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Cc: Adam Migus <amigus@compusult.nf.ca>
> Subject: quota on a mail spool directory - help!
>
> I've got quotas setup on a freebsd 4.1.1 machine. Here is a snip of my
> fstab
>
> /dev/ad0s1f /users ufs rw,userquota 2 2
> /dev/ad0s1h /var/mail ufs rw,userquota 2 2
>
> The quota works wonderfully on /users. It's set to a 3mb limit without a
> grace. I've tested the sh!t out of it and no problems.
>
> My issue is with the mail partition. According to the "edquota" man page, a
> grace of 1 second should indicate no grace period, which works well with my
> /users partition, but not for my mail. Despite an 8mb hard limit without a
> grace period, the grace keeps defaulting back to 6 days and allowing more
> than 8mb. As a test, I setup a user called "test" and emailed 2 7mb files
> to the user, after the 1st file I ran "quota -v test"
>
> -----
> Disk quotas for user test (uid 5246):
> Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit
> grace
> /users 9 0 3000 5 0 0
> /var/mail 7232 0 8000 1 0 0
> -----
>
> after the 2nd file I ran "quota -v test" again
>
> ----
> Disk quotas for user test (uid 5246):
> Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit
> grace
> /users 9 0 3000 5 0 0
> /var/mail 7232 0 8000 1 0 0
> ----
>
> According to the "edquota" man page, a grace of 1 second should indicate no
> grace period, which works well with my /users partition, but no for my mail.
> Here is the result of running "edquota -t test" (to establish the grace)
>
> ----
> Time units may be: days, hours, minutes, or seconds
> Grace period before enforcing soft limits for users:
> /users: block grace period: 1 second, file grace period: 0 days
> /var/mail: block grace period: 1 second, file grace period: 0 days
> ----
>
> Here is the result from running "edquota -u test" (to actually set the
> limits)
>
> ----
> Quotas for user test:
> /users: blocks in use: 9, limits (soft = 0, hard = 3000)
> inodes in use: 5, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
> /var/mail: blocks in use: 14456, limits (soft = 0, hard = 8000)
> inodes in use: 1, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
> ----
>
>
> Can anyone help? Anybody have a similar problem with quotas on a mail
> partition or know of a possible reading source?
>
> thx in advance.
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
>
--
:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0010151027480.72836-100000>