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.
-- 

	Chris Grevstad
	{ihnp4,noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!byucsa!chris

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