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Quoting Nix (suse@nix.hispeed.com) on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:03:50PM +1100:
At 10:34 AM 28/12/2000 +0100, you wrote:
What does ulimit -a say? Sounds like the OS is limiting tthe size and postfix checks bevore attempting to write to the file. If you check the postfix source, you will see that this comes from the process limits.
fw:~ # cat /etc/profile --snip-- #Additions by harden_suse: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mark is a bit radical sometimes.....
ulimit -H -c 20000 # hardlimit: no coredumps > 20mb ulimit -S -c 0 # softlimit: no coredumps ulimit -f 512000 # hard/soft: no files > 512 mb in size allowed ^^^^^^ here you go... I got bittenn by harden_suse as well, took me a bit to figure out why mkisofs always died :-(
fw:/etc # ulimit -a core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) 512000 <-------------- max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited
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