[SAC] Munin Notification mail.osgeo.org Disk usage in percent

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On 03/11/2013 12:20 AM, munin@webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org wrote:

osgeo.org :: mail.osgeo.org :: Disk usage in percent
  WARNINGs: / is 92.03 (outside range [:92]).

Hmm, didn't we increase the disk space significantly recently on the Mail server?

Anyone know why it's taking so much more space than it used to? More than 5% gains per week the last 4 weeks.

Thanks,
Alex

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On 03/11/2013 08:55 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:

On 03/11/2013 12:20 AM, munin@webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org wrote:

osgeo.org :: mail.osgeo.org :: Disk usage in percent
    WARNINGs: / is 92.03 (outside range [:92]).

Hmm, didn't we increase the disk space significantly recently on the
Mail server?

Anyone know why it's taking so much more space than it used to? More
than 5% gains per week the last 4 weeks.

Thanks,
Alex
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/var/mail is 32 G
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private is 27G

Is there any way to make the private archives live compressed?
Is var mail inboxes on the machine, if so 32G for martinl?

Those 2 things mentioned are almost the entirety of the space occupied on the mail server.

Thanks,
Alex

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:33:22AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

Is var mail inboxes on the machine, if so 32G for martinl?

Yup, apparently someone's sending EMail to local mailboxes.
That's probably my fault. As a solution I'll make sure every EMail not
being a list or dealt with via aliases gets rejected with user unknown.

Let's just purge the local mailboxes.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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On 03/11/2013 09:51 AM, Martin Spott wrote:

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:33:22AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

Is var mail inboxes on the machine, if so 32G for martinl?

Yup, apparently someone's sending EMail to local mailboxes.
That's probably my fault. As a solution I'll make sure every EMail not
being a list or dealt with via aliases gets rejected with user unknown.

Let's just purge the local mailboxes.

Cheers,
  Martin.

Could those be mailman sending moderator messages? Or delivering subscription locally. I'm curious to understand what's being sent before we delete but otherwise agree with you.

Thanks,
Alex

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:59:06AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

On 03/11/2013 09:51 AM, Martin Spott wrote:

>Let's just purge the local mailboxes.

Could those be mailman sending moderator messages? Or delivering
subscription locally. I'm curious to understand what's being sent
before we delete but otherwise agree with you.

As far as I can tell, the "martinl" mailbox contains automated output
from GRASS builds and other stuff. Let's be honest, who wants to read
through 32 GByte of EMail nobody actually claimed to be missing ? :wink:

Cheers,
  Martin.
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev@wildintellect.com> wrote:
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Could those be mailman sending moderator messages?

No, those come to the moderators directly.

Markus

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Hi,

2013/3/11 Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net>:

Could those be mailman sending moderator messages? Or delivering
subscription locally. I'm curious to understand what's being sent
before we delete but otherwise agree with you.

As far as I can tell, the "martinl" mailbox contains automated output
from GRASS builds and other stuff. Let's be honest, who wants to read
through 32 GByte of EMail nobody actually claimed to be missing ? :wink:

huh, will check right now... Martin

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Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

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Hi,

2013/3/11 Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com>:

As far as I can tell, the "martinl" mailbox contains automated output
from GRASS builds and other stuff. Let's be honest, who wants to read
through 32 GByte of EMail nobody actually claimed to be missing ? :wink:

huh, will check right now... Martin

sorry guys!, but how can I reach this mailbox? I have tried.

martin@debian:~$ ssh martinl@mail.osgeo.org
You must be a uniquemember of cn=sac,ou=Shell,dc=osgeo,dc=org to login.
Connection closed by 140.211.15.134

Appearently these messages come from my cronjobs. Setting

MAILTO=""

in my crontab should stop it, right?

Thanks for you patience! Martin

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Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

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Hi,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:29:13PM +0100, Martin Landa wrote:

Appearently these messages come from my cronjobs. Setting

MAILTO=""

in my crontab should stop it, right?

Well, you could instead set MAILTO to some valid address.
If it's ok to remove the mailbox file, please let us know.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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Hi,

2013/3/11 Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net>:

Well, you could instead set MAILTO to some valid address.

sure.

If it's ok to remove the mailbox file, please let us know.

yes, please remove this mailbox file. Thanks! Martin

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Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:57:16PM +0100, Martin Landa wrote:

yes, please remove this mailbox file.

mail:/var/spool/mail# /usr/bin/time rm -f martinl
0.00user 1.44system 0:40.28elapsed 3%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 3200maxresident)k

Welcome to modern Linux filesystems :wink:

Cheers,
  Martin.
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