Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: mail and disk quotas Message-ID: <968@opus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:42:58 EST Article-I.D.: opus.968 Posted: Sat Dec 8 00:42:58 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:42:39 EST References: <6183@brl-tgr.ARPA> <302@sdchema.UUCP> <170@uwai.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 16 > > The mail spool is a particular nuisance as other users can > > force someone over quota by blasting mail at them. > > I haven't had it happen here but I would assume that > > mail starts falling off the floor. > > How does this happen? Don't tell me you put quotas on /usr!!! People's > stuff queued up in /usr/spool/* shouldn't affect their disk quotas > as long as you haven't gone and done this questionable thing. > Wrong--you can't have both. If you don't put quotas on /usr/spool, it doesn't take a very clever user to figure out that he can exceed his quota for file space by sending the big files in mail to himself! -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Are you making this up as you go along?