mail and disk quotas
Chris J. Grevstad
chris at byucsa.UUCP
Fri Dec 7 02:38:23 AEST 1984
>> 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.
I think putting quotas on /usr is a valid thing to do when when you have users
who archive (and consequently bypass their quotas) by mailing their files to
themselves.
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Chris Grevstad
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