quota advice

2013-06-01 Thread Pol Hallen
Hello all :-) I using quota and I've a doubt: many howto advice to put to cron something like: quotacheck -vguma but the problem is: quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint /data so quotacheck might damage the file. Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking. So... can

Quota as a boot time module

2013-02-16 Thread Fbsd8
I was reading the handbook quota section and it says quota has to be compiles into the kernel. I thought it can also be loaded as a boot time module? If so, how is it done. If so, I will also file a pr to get the handbook quota section updated. Thanks

Re: Quota as a boot time module

2013-02-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:32:32 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: I was reading the handbook quota section and it says quota has to be compiles into the kernel. I thought it can also be loaded as a boot time module? If I remember correctly, quota is still one of the few things you cannot load as a module

About QUOTA support in stock kernel

2012-12-21 Thread Patrick Dung
Hi, I would like to know why quota is not enabled in the stock kernel.. I remembered that it is not enabled since freebsd 3.5 or freebsd 4 generation. Now in freebsd 9.0, it still neeed a kernel rebuild. I have heard it has performance issue (GIANT lock) about quota. Regards, Patrick

strange quota behaviour

2009-10-18 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi list, I am going to add user test in system: ~/:sudo pw useradd test -m then, I am going to check quotas ~/:sudo quota -u -v test Disk quotas for user test (uid 2022): Filesystem usage quota limit grace files quota limit grace /home 36 0 0

Re: strange quota behaviour

2009-10-18 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi again, I correct my post, of course I can set quotas for that user, by setquota command, but I cant see quotas for that user, only by repquota. I need to see it by quota command because I write a script where I depend on it. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free

Quota support in GENERIC or as loadable module?

2009-07-26 Thread Wouter de Vries
Hello, Right now quota support is not available by default in the GENERIC kernel. As far as I know there is no way to compile quota support as a loadable module, am I correct? If so, what are the reasons for not including this feature in the GENERIC kernel and/or providing it as a loadable module

Re: Disk Quota Full Error

2009-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OFL amd64 - -(kar...@spark.ofloo.net)-(22:06:40) -(~)- mkdir vor2 mkdir: vor2: Disc quota exceeded Any help appricated. Is this a problem on my end, or server side? ___ you've got the exact message. why you don't read them

Disk Quota Full Error

2009-06-22 Thread Karp
FreeBSD spark.ofloo.net 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Mon Jun 22 14:20:07 UTC 2009 of...@spark.ofloo.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ OFL amd64 - -(kar...@spark.ofloo.net)-(22:06:40) -(~)- mkdir vor2 mkdir: vor2: Disc quota exceeded Any help appricated. Is this a problem on my end

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
same user password somewhere else. The whole point of ssh is to prevent this sort of thing, by encrypting the message traffic over this insecure communication channel. I think most people using ssh already know it. or maybe not?:) An attacker may be able to intercept the encrypted traffic,

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name is

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But we're talking about vulnerability to dictionary and brute-force attacks. You'd have to first: Ascertain a username in the wheel group. As time needed to brute-force crack any of my password is incomparably longer than the age of universe, this is not an argument. It's just a matter to

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-30 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-29 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/28 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com: On Thursday 28 May 2009 02:34:02 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: And yes - i do log as root by insecure rsh and telnet. OK, I'm now promoting you to batshit insane.  Seriously, there's no excuse for running telnet - even in a secure (ha!) environment -

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-29 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name is well known :) If a system accepts remote root logins, an

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for running telnet - even in a secure (ha!) environment - when so much better alternatives exist. Let me shoot you a hypothetical: your webserver gets compromised. Something I pointed out earlier. and what? assuming it will actually be possible to get root access at all because of bug it

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Even 15 seconds of thinking is enough to understand that logging to other user and then su - gives completely no extra security. I don't buy this, given that root's login name is well known :) if someone can intercept the passwords you

Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
quota: the home directory is NFS mounted from another machine acting as file server, the quota must be edited on the file server. How could I nicely and securely connect from the script on the web server to the file server, in order to edit the quota? It should be nice and secure and without password

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- create the MySQL database for that user The only thing I cannot do is to set the disk quota: the home directory is NFS mounted from another machine acting as file server, the quota must be edited on the file server. How could I nicely and securely connect from the script on the web server

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
How could I nicely and securely connect from the script on the web server to the file server, in order to edit the quota? It should be use rsh and .rhosts :) I do that already, not really what I call secure ;) As I put up a new machine, I'd prefer something else. Olivier

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
use rsh and .rhosts :) I do that already, not really what I call secure ;) Could you please explain why it is not secure in your case? I don't know exactly the environment in your case so i can't answer for sure, but most probably it's perfectly secure.

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/28 Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th: How could I nicely and securely connect from the script on the web server to the file server, in order to edit the quota? It should be use rsh and .rhosts :) I do that already, not really what I call secure ;) As I put up a new machine, I'd

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
use rsh and .rhosts :) I do that already, not really what I call secure ;) Could you please explain why it is not secure in your case? I don't know exactly the environment in your case so i can't answer for sure, but most probably it's perfectly secure. Because rsh/rlogin etc. is

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
rsh and ssh are so similar in use there's really no point in using rsh at all any more. there is a point. Just try to think why instead of simply repeating a phrase ssh is secure, rsh is not, don't use it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: rsh and ssh are so similar in use there's really no point in using rsh at all any more. there is a point. Just try to think why instead of simply repeating a phrase ssh is secure, rsh is not, don't use it. rlogin has several serious

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sure, but most probably it's perfectly secure. Because rsh/rlogin etc. is unsecure in any case. I don't remember the very bad you don't remember the details. Let i give you an example. I throw 1000$ on my table in my flat. Is this money insecure? The answer is - maybe, it's just as secure

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Due to these serious problems rlogin was rarely used across untrusted networks Good you finally pointed out the most important thing rlogin/rsh is insecure across untrusted network This is QUITE a difference between this and rsh is insecure. period rsh is as secure as the communication

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: Due to these serious problems rlogin was rarely used across untrusted networks Good you finally pointed out the most important thing rlogin/rsh is insecure across untrusted network This is QUITE a difference between this and rsh is

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Also, I think it's a bad idea to leave money lying round like that. That's why we have banks. More layers. like most people today you like overcomplexity, layers etc. But there are still people that prefer simplicity. You should have some respect to them.

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Jon Radel
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Also, I think it's a bad idea to leave money lying round like that. That's why we have banks. More layers. like most people today you like overcomplexity, layers etc. But there are still people that prefer simplicity. You should have some respect to them. Some.

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
respect to them. Some. But zero sympathy the day it all blows up in their faces due to just one little configuration error or, oops, exploit they didn't know about. what configuration error could you imagine. In my opinion there is bigger change to make a configuration error in more

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
rsh is as secure as the communication channel. If it can be considered secure - DO USE rsh, because it's fastest as it doesn't have any encryption overhead. Are you on a 386? depends, between pentium I and core2 quad. what's a difference? ___

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 28 May 2009 08:53:23 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: depends, between pentium I and core2 quad. what's a difference? Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever breaking 10% CPU usage. I'm of the opinion that most people don't need to optimize for CPU in

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 28 May 2009 06:13:11 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: rsh is as secure as the communication channel. If it can be considered secure - DO USE rsh, because it's fastest as it doesn't have any encryption overhead. Are you on a 386? -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/5/09 15:04, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009 08:53:23 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: depends, between pentium I and core2 quad. what's a difference? Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever breaking 10% CPU usage. I'm of the opinion

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:15:22 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: Also, I think it's a bad idea to leave money lying round like that. That's why we have banks. More layers. No. We have benks because they make it easier to steal people's money more silently, so they notice when it's

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:04:43 -0500, Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever breaking 10% CPU usage. I'm of the opinion that most people don't need to optimize for CPU in such cases when the security payoffs are so great.

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Rees
to edit the quota? It should be nice and secure and without password. /quote He even said 'secure' twice. There is a web server involved, meaning possibility of compromise (we all know how secure web servers tend to be), and then one has access to network traffic for sniffing. Also

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:04:23 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: [The OP] even said 'secure' twice. There is a web server involved, meaning possibility of compromise (we all know how secure web servers tend to be), and then one has access to network traffic for sniffing. Also, if

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever breaking 10% CPU usage. probably true, i never checked actually. i just don't understand such reasoning that you have to waste (even small) CPU power without sense. For example local private LAN or already-encrypted VPN

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
good as the weakest point. Of course you can add security by using SSH, and it's definitely indicated when doing things via the Internet. As long as you are inside your own net, covered from the Internet, with only trustworthy machines inside it, you could even use telnet. which i actually do.

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know I sound like Theo, but security and reliability are ALWAYS more important than overhead or speed. I really agree with You. That's why every admin (and user too) should think about what is he/she doing, instead of repeating the same mantras about security/insecurity of something.

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But if it is, why not? At least, the OP's description involving some time ago i heard from linux user that rshd is removed at all because it's insecure. Just got another example how good decision i made moving away from it. ___

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 28 May 2009 02:34:02 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: And yes - i do log as root by insecure rsh and telnet. OK, I'm now promoting you to batshit insane. Seriously, there's no excuse for running telnet - even in a secure (ha!) environment - when so much better alternatives exist. Let

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
And yes - i do log as root by insecure rsh and telnet. OK, I'm now promoting you to batshit insane. Seriously, there's no excuse thank you very much. while i don't know exactly what is a difference between batshit insane and insane i feel really proud!

FreeBSD, quota

2009-02-19 Thread Pieter Donche
to be able to impose file and disk quotas on individual users the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options are supported? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD, quota

2009-02-19 Thread Matias Surdi
Have you looked at the official documentation? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/book.html#QUOTAS Pieter Donche wrote: to be able to impose file and disk quotas on individual users the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options

Re: FreeBSD, quota

2009-02-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options are supported? options QUOTA man 7 ffs for more ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

edit users quota in a script

2009-02-07 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Hello. I use a script to create automatically my users (with pw, and mkdir, etc...). I use quota, and I have to excute 'edquota -u user', and enter quota informations. So, the process can not be automaticated. And cannot be part of my script. I don't find informations in edquota(8) manpages

Re: differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

2009-02-07 Thread Nicolas Letellier
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:12:56 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:13:17 +0100 Nicolas Letellier nico...@nicoelro.net wrote: Hello. I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs. But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have: .. Why this difference

Re: edit users quota in a script

2009-02-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello. I use a script to create automatically my users (with pw, and mkdir, etc...). I use quota, and I have to excute 'edquota -u user', and enter quota informations. So, the process can not be automaticated. And cannot be part of my script. I don't find

Re: edit users quota in a script

2009-02-07 Thread Nicolas Letellier
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:09:13 +0200 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello. I use a script to create automatically my users (with pw, and mkdir, etc...). I use quota, and I have to excute 'edquota -u user', and enter quota informations. So

Re: edit users quota in a script

2009-02-07 Thread Stephen Corbesero
...). I use quota, and I have to excute 'edquota -u user', and enter quota informations. So, the process can not be automaticated. And cannot be part of my script. I don't find informations in edquota(8) manpages about editing user quota without open a file. Is an other solution exists? I'm

differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

2009-02-06 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Hello. I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs. But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have: r...@domain sites $ du -sh folder 633Mfolder But, when I print disk usage with quota -u user, I have: isk quotas for user user (uid 2002): Filesystem usage quota limit grace

Re: differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

2009-02-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Nicolas Letellier nico...@nicoelro.net wrote: Hello. I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs. But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have: r...@domain sites $ du -sh folder 633Mfolder But, when I print disk usage with quota -u user, I have: isk

Re: differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

2009-02-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Nicolas Letellier nico...@nicoelro.net wrote: Hello. I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs. But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have: r...@domain sites $ du -sh folder

Re: differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

2009-02-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:13:17 +0100 Nicolas Letellier nico...@nicoelro.net wrote: Hello. I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs. But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have: .. Why this difference? (633M against 648264) Try dividing 648264 by 1024

Re: How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?

2008-08-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 August 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: On freebsd7, How to set quota for a directory? For instance I want to set 100Mbyte quota for a directory. How can I do that ? Quotas are handled per filesystem, not per directory. See man

How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?

2008-08-08 Thread Yavuz Maslak
On freebsd7, How to set quota for a directory? For instance I want to set 100Mbyte quota for a directory. How can I do that ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?

2008-08-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: On freebsd7, How to set quota for a directory? For instance I want to set 100Mbyte quota for a directory. How can I do that ? Quotas are handled per filesystem, not per directory. See man quotaon man quotacheck, or the FreeBSD Handbook

Re: How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?

2008-08-08 Thread acmeinc
You may actually use the edquota -u command to set a quota a specific user. I think this is about as specific as you can get. edquota -g is for groups and edquota -f is for a filesystem. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-set-quota-%28-as-Mbyte-%29

Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-10 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Quoting lyd mc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, my company wants to have 20meg mbox space per user. If the User exceeds, he/she should not recieved any mail. So, I use system quota to prevent sendmail from writing to mbox of a Let me suggest slightly different approaches: 1.- You could have

Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-10 Thread Mel
On Thursday 10 July 2008 16:19:59 Mikhail Goriachev wrote: Quoting lyd mc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, my company wants to have 20meg mbox space per user. If the User exceeds, he/she should not recieved any mail. So, I use system quota to prevent sendmail from writing to mbox of a Let me

Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-10 Thread lyd mc
Hi Mikhail, Thank you for the great suggestion. I will try it in our new server. Regards, alyd --- On Thu, 7/10/08, Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-09 Thread lyd mc
Hi Derek, It is good to hear from you. You are right about sendmail has only global option to limit mail size. However, my company wants to have 20meg mbox space per user. If the User exceeds, he/she should not recieved any mail. So, I use system quota to prevent sendmail from writing

Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:14 PM 7/7/2008, lyd mc wrote: Greetings, I setup my mail server on freebsd7.0R and it is working great! However, I have a problem on quota. It suppose to block any incoming message to specific user which is under quota. But sendmail can still send to the user under quota if the mail

quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-07 Thread lyd mc
Greetings, I setup my mail server on freebsd7.0R and it is working great! However, I have a problem on quota. It suppose to block any incoming message to specific user which is under quota. But sendmail can still send to the user under quota if the mail size is ~ less than 10k. Quota only

RE: Freebsd quota sendmail

2008-02-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Ragona Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:49 AM To: Ofloo; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd quota sendmail At 12:29 PM 2/27/2008, Ofloo wrote: I'm putting this under

Freebsd quota sendmail

2008-02-27 Thread Ofloo
I'm putting this under freebsd because there is no forum for sendmail, and it does concern freebsd as well. My problem is this, when i set quota in /var/mail directory to each user and this user creates a cronjob, that doesn't forward all data to /dev/null, and keeps on generating mail, .. Well

Re: Freebsd quota sendmail

2008-02-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Ofloo wrote: I'm putting this under freebsd because there is no forum for sendmail, and it does concern freebsd as well. Well, there's comp.mail.sendmail on Usenet. My problem is this, when i set quota in /var/mail directory to each user and this user creates

Re: Freebsd quota sendmail

2008-02-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:29 PM 2/27/2008, Ofloo wrote: I'm putting this under freebsd because there is no forum for sendmail, and it does concern freebsd as well. My problem is this, when i set quota in /var/mail directory to each user and this user creates a cronjob, that doesn't forward all data to /dev/null

Re: how to enable the quota on

2008-02-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Giotis Eugen wrote: hello, im trying to enable quota on and i recieve the following error: fstab: /etc/fstab:2: Inappropriate file type or format and i typed: /etc/rc.conf and i recieve the error: /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied. Can you help me

Re: how to enable the quota on

2008-02-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
im trying to enable quota on and i recieve the following error: fstab: /etc/fstab:2: Inappropriate file type or format how do you enable it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

how to enable the quota on

2008-02-01 Thread Giotis Eugen
hello, im trying to enable quota on and i recieve the following error: fstab: /etc/fstab:2: Inappropriate file type or format and i typed: /etc/rc.conf and i recieve the error: /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied. Can you help me ? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: how to enable the quota on

2008-02-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:42:39PM +0200, Giotis Eugen wrote: hello, im trying to enable quota on and i recieve the following error: fstab: /etc/fstab:2: Inappropriate file type or format and i typed: /etc/rc.conf and i recieve the error: /etc/rc.conf: Permission denied. I don't know

Postfix quota per virtual domain

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I am working on a Postfix email server for virtual domain. I was requested to implement quota per domain, not per user, have you ever seen something like that? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Postfix quota per virtual domain

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I am working on a Postfix email server for virtual domain. I was requested to implement quota per domain, not per user: the sum of mailboxes of all the users in the domain must not exceed the quota set for the domain. (All I could find was example where all users of the domain had a same

viability of QUOTA support as a KLD?

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, It seems most of the things I want to do under freeBSD have been turned into nice KLD modules. However, I'm still forced to do a kernel recompile for QUOTA support. Is there some major reason it cannot be made into a KLD as well? -Dan Mahoney -- It would be bad. -Egon Spengler

jail+quota problem!

2007-09-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i have multi-jail server, moved every jail to a separate UFS partition, and turned on quota on some of them (where vserver customer asked for it). repquota shows all right, edquota works, then repquota shows right things but after few syncs or just waiting a minute quota setting disappears

quota on samba file server

2007-06-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I have Freebsd 6.2 installed with file quota on. Today I have installed samba and enbaled network share for Windows machines. Now I would like to set quota for this share. I am not sure if I should do this from the swat panel or set the quota via command line in freebsd? All hints gladly

Re: Does QUOTA work for users not in /etc/password (ie. by UID?)

2006-08-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 29), Philip Hallstrom said: I was looking at implementing QUOTA for a server, but all of our users are stored in a database (ftp/pop/imap authenticates against the db). They each have their own uid's though so the files are owned individually. I would think file

Re: Does QUOTA work for users not in /etc/password (ie. by UID?)

2006-08-29 Thread Mark Tinguely
BTW, there is a small bug in quota for FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. The count gets off if the partition overfills (kern/89247). There is a patch in the description if you want to manually apply. --Mark Tinguely. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Does QUOTA work for users not in /etc/password (ie. by UID?)

2006-08-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I was looking at implementing QUOTA for a server, but all of our users are stored in a database (ftp/pop/imap authenticates against the db). They each have their own uid's though so the files are owned individually. I would think file system quotas would work for this, but from

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
to print nothing happens, I go into cups configuration page and I don't see any printer there, it just disappeared, I go through the adding a new printer process again and I add it exactly the same way I did the first time and I try to print a test page I get this error: Quota limit reached I

CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
process again and I add it exactly the same way I did the first time and I try to print a test page I get this error: Quota limit reached I click on administration again and then manage printers and again the printer I just added is not there. Does anyone know what's going

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony Agelastos
I try to print nothing happens, I go into cups configuration page and I don't see any printer there, it just disappeared, I go through the adding a new printer process again and I add it exactly the same way I did the first time and I try to print a test page I get this error: Quota limit

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
disappeared, I go through the adding a new printer process again and I add it exactly the same way I did the first time and I try to print a test page I get this error: Quota limit reached I click on administration again and then manage printers and again the printer I just added

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony Agelastos
page I get this error: Quota limit reached I click on administration again and then manage printers and again the printer I just added is not there. Does anyone know what's going on with this? It just doesn't make any sense! At first I thought I had it and now ??? Anyway I'm running FBSD

6.1 quota issues?

2006-07-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, Any idea what this is indicating? [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/staff/micro/tmp]# quota micro Disk quotas for user micro (uid 5315): Filesystem usage quota limit grace files quota limit grace / 1630026 300 310 13393 0 0 [EMAIL

quota printing ?

2006-06-07 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a centralized quota printing solution that would run over CUPS or LPRNG , I've reviewed pyquota but it doesn't fit our needings. Ideally it could use a SYBASE database system as backend as we have a SYBASE server ... Thanks a lot. -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet

Re: quota printing ?

2006-06-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Frank Bonnet wrote: I'm searching for a centralized quota printing solution that would run over CUPS or LPRNG , I've reviewed pyquota but it doesn't fit our needings. Ideally it could use a SYBASE database system as backend as we have a SYBASE server ... This is one of the admin tasks

Mail when users over quota

2006-06-01 Thread Bart Braem
We are implementing quota on our servers and it worked out fine. But we would like to warn users with a mail when they are over quota. Is there a tool that does that? We found warnquota for linux but nothing for FreeBSD. We are not the only users of quota who want to warn their users with a mail

Re: Mail when users over quota

2006-06-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 01), Bart Braem said: We are implementing quota on our servers and it worked out fine. But we would like to warn users with a mail when they are over quota. Is there a tool that does that? We found warnquota for linux but nothing for FreeBSD. We are not the only users

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-25 Thread GiL A. Virtucio
: quota and /var/mail If you want to only have one set of quotas, you might consider switching to a Postfix/Maildir setup where your users' inboxes will be located in their home folder rather than in /var/mail. It's a fairly easy switch: install Postfix from /usr/ports/mail/postfix, and then you

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
patrick wrote: It's a fairly easy switch: install Postfix from /usr/ports/mail/postfix, and then you just need to configure one line in your Postfix's main.cf to turn on Maildir support: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#maildir Though, there might be a bit of a learning curve with respect to

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-24 Thread patrick
, with quotas, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1g on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) I just want the quota to read the Shell user (home directory) size plus the INBOX mails which stay in /var/mail/$UserName Currently the quota reads the home directory and ignores the $inbox

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:02:44 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: If you want to only have one set of quotas, you might consider switching to a Postfix/Maildir setup where your users' inboxes will be located in their home folder rather than in /var/mail. It's a fairly easy switch:

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-23 Thread Marwan Sultan
) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) I just want the quota to read the Shell user (home directory) size plus the INBOX mails which stay in /var/mail/$UserName Currently the quota reads the home directory and ignores the $inbox Thak you mike Marwan At 07:37 PM 21/05/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:43 PM 23/05/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-21 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Mike, Thank you for your answer, as im stuck on this point and lost with my users, beside none answering this question on the list! No when I enabled quota I did the configuration on /usr shall i enable it on /var to? then how to make the sendmail or the shell reads the user

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