Boyle, Bernadette wrote:
Hello,
I have a terrible problem at the moment at the university with new students not being able to receive mail because I cannot create any more accounts.
I am currently running cyrus-imapd-2.0.17. However I cannot create any more mailboxes.
I receive the following error when trying to create new accounts ...
Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jsnadd11: Too many links
Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jtarra10: Too many links
Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jvargh12: Too many links
Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jwalsh14: Too many links
Sep 15 19:05:16 sparrow imapd[7843]: [ID 721126 local6.error] IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/cyrus1/user/jwatso26: Too many links
.... and so it goes on
I currently have 32,765 directories in this account and it seems like perhaps I have reached the quota. Is there anyway to stop this?
Create another Cyrus partition (probably, but not necessarily, on a new physical partition) and create the new user accounts there.
For example, add something like this to imapd.conf:
partition-cyrus2: /var/spool/cyrus2
Then in cyradm, do the following:
cm user.jwalsh14 cyrus2
-- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html