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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Need help implementing diskquota
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:51:00 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
- Lines: 34
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- In article <H08SBYTP@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik
- Oliver) writes:
- =>We have implemented diskquotas on our NeXT using a program which we
- =>downloaded from a NeXT archive site. It checks disk usage nightly and
- =>disusers people who have been over their quota 7 out of the last 10
- =>days, sys-admin configurable. What it basically does is add a field to
- =>the NetInfo Database called diskquota, additionally it can be used to
- =>quota Printer access.
- =>
- =>If you can't find it, email me and I will try to figure our where we got
- =>our version from.
- =>
- =>-Erik
-
-
- Becareful with this program. It doesn't handle large netinfo database
- structures very well. It destroyed part of our database when we attempted to
- use it when it barfed in the middle of the add quota script. It was a
- repeatable error, as it seems that our database was just too large (400
- users)...
-
- We now use a script that runs nightly, checking disk usage and mailing users a
- notice when they exceed their disk quota and the amount of space they are
- using. This list is also accessable by all users so an element of peer
- pressure has been added. This is generally effective in keeping the amount of
- disk usage under control...
-
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