will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:36:16PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:50:47PM +0000, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> I'll be going in a new-year vacations until 3 January. As someone suggested >>> in another thread, I'll be using procmail to redirect debian mailing lists >>> to /dev/null... I hope it works... >> >> Make sure to check the latest 2.4.0 pre kernels for the /dev/null patch >> to prevent a /dev/null overflow, particularly with the Debian lists.
If the machine's going to be up over this weekend, /dev/random might be more of a problem since /etc/cron.millennial/standard will be introducing extra chaos into the system. The best fix is to install anarcron, which runs cronjobs at random intervals. > i was wondering about that. my /dev/zero and /dev/null have been > growing above their usual restrictions lately -- but i'm still > on potato (2.2.17). who's responsible for this anomaly? Well, who's got root on your machine? >> ;-) -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd grep gullible /usr/share/dict/words
