Re: Mail loop somewhere

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:56:16 +1300


On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:07:19PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> I got over 200 megabytes of mail from some loop on the list. This
> made it kinda hard to use this system. I had to boot an alternate
> root.

A good reason not get get high volumes of mail to root... any other
users probably would have hit the reserved limit (assuming ext2fs
here) and the mail would have been deferred....

-cw

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