Re: How can you limit a user's disk space?

Ed Longstrom (edl@rock.spectra.net)
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:03:56 -0400 (EDT)

You can limit the mail message by size before it is
sent out by modifying sendmail.cf, but this also
limits incoming messages size. (There may be a way
to seperate the two, but I don't know what it is)

We set ours since people were sending 20-50meg mail
messages. Some of them learned how to use ftp.

Use quota for disk space restrictions.

Ed Longstrom

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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jeff Halper wrote:

> Does anyone know how you can absolutely disallow a user from using more than
> a pre-defined amount of disk space. Can you somehow limit the size of an
> allowable email message?
>
> I just had a user whose email file contained 321 megabytes of stuff!! Seems
> he was using us as some sort of data-warehouse - I haven't any idea what he
> was doing, but he has only logged in 35 minutes in a month! I can see that
> users like this can cripple a system. (This 321 megs of data came in during
> the last 5 hours)
>
> -Thanks
>
> Jeff
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