Subject: Can you help?

From: "Paula B. Rand" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:42:10 -0400 (EDT)

Hi.  I was recently informed by the computer that my disc quota has been
exceeded, and therefore with numerous beeps, it told me I could no longer
save anything.  Neither can I append new addresses to my address book.  I
consequently deleted a large number of files, but this seems to have made
no difference.  Help?
Thanks,
Paula Rand

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:03:58 +0100 (BST)

Why?  Because your "disc quota has been exceeded"!

Most sites limit the amount of information each user can store on their
computers.  "Information" may be files that you have created as part of
your work, and may also include messages you have stored in folders.

The solution is to release some of your disc quota by deleting any files
and/or messages you no longer need to keep.

Please contact your local help desk for furhter advice... you sent you
message to a world-wide list of people who discuss the Pine mail program;
we do not have access to your computers and cannot advise further on what
you should delete or how to do it.

Cheers,

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:41:00 -0600 (MDT)

To the growing list of posters who are getting 'disk quota
exceeded' messages:  if you're looking ONLY in your Pine folders
for files to delete, start looking elsewhere.  In my experience
with clients, the most likely place to find large files (or large
numbers of small files) is the home directory of your unix
account.  Next most likely would be your News or .tin
subdirectories, if either applies to your installation.  If you
need keystroke-specific command help, talk to your provider.

Lea

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From: "Robert J. Wilshe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:22:19 -0500 (CDT)

> need keystroke-specific command help, talk to your provider.

Good point, Lea.  I hear a lot of complaints about quotas exceeded by the
same users who love to leave several proceses running and just exit their
telnet client without logging off their shell, letting core dumps pile up
in their accounts.  These users should look for these files (any file with
"core" usually in the name) and delete them. 

Just another suggestion....

\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\
robert		 chicago  illinois
joseph		 u       s       a
wilshe		 rwilshe @ ais.net
//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:05:23 +0200 (CEST)

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Wise words, to which I'd humbly like to add: check your .netscape file if
there's one -- mine once held 50MB :-/

  >To the growing list of posters who are getting 'disk quota exceeded'
  >messages: if you're looking ONLY in your Pine folders for files to
  >delete, start looking elsewhere. In my experience with clients, the most
  >likely place to find large files (or large numbers of small files) is the
  >home directory of your unix account. Next most likely would be your News
  >or .tin subdirectories, if either applies to your installation. If you

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 13 May 1997 13:48:16 GMT

[email-masked] (Robert J. Wilshe):
> I hear a lot of complaints about quotas exceeded by the same users who love
> to leave several proceses running and just exit their telnet client without
> logging off their shell, letting core dumps pile up in their accounts.

These people deserve to live with it!  (No, seriously.)

A book on Unix usually explains about core files and how to handle them.
The Shells csh, tcsh, and zsh allow to limit the size of a core dump with a
variable, usually names "coredumpsize".  Set to zero and - no more coredumps.
;-)

Sven