perf@efd.lth.se (Per Foreby) (10/20/90)
A few week I asked how to stop students from circumventing the quota system by mailing files to themselves. In all the answers I got, there are two major ways to attack the problem: 1. Use quotas on the spooldisk or keep the files in the users home- directory (by using smail, symlinks or by hacking sendmail). The obvious disadvantage: The normal orderly user gets into trouble when sendmail exceeds his quota. 2. Don't let a few troblemakers make life complicated for you and the rest of the users. Explain the policy, and then delete misused mailboxes (They can easily be found with a find scrip run from cron). Since our problem only concerns a handfull of users, I think the second method is preferable. Thanks to the following who have responded to my posting: rickert@cs.niu.edu, afoiani@NMSU.Edu, adams@ucunix.san.uc.EDU, rowe@cme.nist.gov, russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, scott@castle.edinburgh.ac, bet@orion.mc.duke.edu, matthews@is-next.umd.edu This is ofcourse only a *short* summarey, Please email if you would like the complete collection of replies. -- Per Foreby Email: perf@efd.lth.se System manager at EFD, Lund Institute of Technology (Lund University) Snail: E-huset, LTH, Box 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden. Phone: +46 46 107492