Andrew McNaughton wrote:
>
> 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.
And what the f* is the user doing with read access to the log
directory?
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