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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: mail.local overflows root file system
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>Number:         4913
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Large mail messages can cause mail.local to overflow the root file system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    gshapiro
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov  1 16:20:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Mon Aug 14 02:57:20 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Aug 14 02:58:18 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Greg Lehey
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386, FreeBSD 2.X
>Organization:
LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia
>Environment:

	This problem occurs on all recent versions of FreeBSD running mail.

>Description:

	mail.local copies mail to    /tmp before delivery.    On  some
	occasions, extremely  large mail messages   have been sent (on
	one occasion,  about 20 MB).  Normally, with  /tmp on the root
	file  system, this results in an  undeliverable  message and a
	temporary overflow of the root file system.

>How-To-Repeat:

	I haven't tried this, but it should work.

	Ensure    that sendmail  doesn't   restrict the   size of mail
	messages, and send  a 30   MB  mail message to somebody   from
	another system.

>Fix:

	Place  /tmp on   a    different   file  system,  or     modify
	/usr/src/libexec/mail.local/pathnames.h to make  the temporary
	copy in /var/tmp:

--- pathnames.h 1994/05/27 12:39:19     1.1.1.1
+++ pathnames.h 1997/09/09 01:42:38
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@
  */
 #include <paths.h>
 
-#define _PATH_LOCTMP   "/tmp/local.XXXXXX"
+#define _PATH_LOCTMP   "/var/tmp/local.XXXXXX"
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: fenner 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Nov 2 11:38:56 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Fix misfiled PR.  Please make sure not to strip leading >'s from the PR 
before you send it. 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->	peter 
Responsible-Changed-By: phk 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Apr 26 23:59:01 PDT 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
->peter 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: gshapiro 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 14 02:57:20 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
This has been fixed since at least FreeBSD 3.4.  mail.local now uses 
/var/tmp instead of /tmp. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: peter->gshapiro 
Responsible-Changed-By: gshapiro 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 14 02:57:20 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Give to sendmail maintainer 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=4913 
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