*BSD News Article 83011


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.anet-dfw.com!zeus.anet-chi.com!davidb
From: davidb@zeus.anet-chi.com ()
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Quota for /usr and mail
Date: 15 Nov 1996 21:45:07 GMT
Organization: Anet News Services
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <56io93$bv1@news1.anet-dfw.com>
References: <bf7cc$ec17.ff@news.goldengate.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.anet-chi.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Mury (mury@goldengate.net) wrote:

: Why doesn't sendmail abide by the quota set for an individual?  I have
: my users' quotas set for 5MB on the mail server, but sendmail will
: keep dumping mail in there until the disk fills.

: Am I missing something?  If not, is there a way to add some tool like
: procmail to keep sendmail in check?

: Thanks for any help.

I use /var/mail for my mail spool, and have a quota set on my /var partition.
Works fine.  The only problem is pissed users when they exceed their quota (including the grace period Ive setup).

DB