On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > Dmitry Valdov wrote: > > > I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making > > > *hard*links to directory with mode 1777. >
> I don't use quotas, and don't know a great deal about how they > operate, but I think there's another disk filling DOS involving hard > links lurking which the above measure would also solve. If a user > starts making hard links to (large and growing) log files, with the > new links being placed in /var/mail, then presumably those log files > will not be deleted correctly as they are rolled over, and will > quickly accumulate. > > This could not bring down a system as rapidly as growing the publicly > writable directory with lots of links, but it is not desirable system > behaviour. This is beginning to sound like a broken record: 1) I usually move mail to /var/spool/mail, 2) You can't hard link between /var and /var/spool partitions. On some machines /var/log is a filesys to prevent logfile overflows from filling /var anyway. I usually make a different /var/spool on largish machines to help upgrades go faster. I tend to unmount it, /home, and /usr/local and completely replace the OS. No doubt there are other ways to fix this... - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
