[Gllug] Sending lots of emails "crashes a server"

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Mon Jul 26 08:41:39 UTC 2004


Ian Norton writes:

>send enough dodgy messages (ones that might get queued for a short 
>period) to fill up /. (unless they have /var/mta_dir on another partition)

You mean anyone doesn't do that? Sheesh. You'd have thought that people
would have woken up to the problems of sticking everything on a huge root
filesystem by now. But for some reason, most distributions seem to do that
by default...

Tet
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