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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
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 00:42:58 1984
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> > 	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?