[Lias] Automatic "quota limit reached" notification

[Paul Gear]

Tom Doyle wrote:
> Sorry, I meant file system quota...
> 
> This is just a mail server so when they hit a soft limit, I want an email to 
> shoot off to them & I.
> 
> so I have to setup quotacheck in cron each night & then also run warnquota 
> right?
> 
> I just ran warnquota and it sent me an email for all users over quota (as 
> configured).

Well, you learn something every day.  I didn't even know about
warnquota.  :-)

> quotacheck is not scheduled so how did it know these accounts
> were over? Do I really need to run quotacheck ie. umounting an important 
> filesystem each night?

My understanding is that quotacheck only needs to be run on system
boot or whenever an fsck is required.  It ensures that the quota file
contains the correct information based on what actually exists in the
filesystem.  Ordinary usage should be registered correctly by the
system as it runs.
-- 
Paul Gear
Manager IT Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road, Wellington Point 4160
07 3286 0271
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