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From: jwp@sdchema.UUCP (John Pierce)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: mail and disk quotas
Message-ID: <302@sdchema.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 00:17:39 EST
Article-I.D.: sdchema.302
Posted: Sun Dec  2 00:17:39 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:13:52 EST
References: <6183@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: jwp@sdchema.UUCP (John Pierce)
Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego
Lines: 14
Summary: Use setrlimit(2) in /bin/mail

In article <6183@brl-tgr.ARPA> God  writes:

 > 	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.

This can be fixed trivially in src/bin/mail.c with setrlimit(2).  The most
difficult part is finding the setrlimit(2) document in your manual.  It is,
of course, on the getrlimit(2) page (like where else did you *expect* it to
be, man?).

				John Pierce, Chemistry, UC San Diego
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