CVS SERVER OUT OF SPACE?

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:30:17AM -0600, Jeremy Newman wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:18 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > "FIXED" meaning that this will occur never again due to an SNMP alert
> > infrastructure (or something equally functional) being in place...
> > (which I'd have assumed to be there already for WineHQ, given the relative
> > importance of this server)
> 
> Yes, I have server monitoring software in place. It warns me via email
> when the server breaks certain thresholds. I.e. disk space, process
> count, zombie count, user count, load average, etc.
Good guy :)

> This happened because we had someone uploading us a linux distro DVD to
> our upload space on that server. I have remedied this problem by letting
> our users know to use one of our internal servers, not the web server to
> upload large files such as this.
The usual super-catastrophic events, it seems...
(which probably could have been avoided here by having a separate partition
or quota for the upload directory, but some critical things to be protected
always tend to escape...)

Andreas Mohr