Yes, your reply does answer my question, quota'ing does seem to be a solution but I don't want to restrict from users for possessing multiples of 10MB files.
I have already implemented quota's to prevent them from taking up more than their designated home dir space, although it didn't seem, from what I have read, that is possible to do much else with the quotas? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: 19 May 2005 14:16 To: James Tucker Subject: Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf "James Tucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, I have subscribed to the -questions mailling list. The convention on that list is to copy the sender on everything, so you can ask questions without being subscribed. [The reverse of most other mailing lists, but -questions exists specifically to act as a tech support forum. I *think* my answer was probably what you needed, though; if I guessed wrong about what you're trying to do, you'll need to provide more information. > James > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Lowell Gilbert > Sent: 18 May 2005 20:16 > To: James Tucker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf > > > This has nothing to do with filesystems, so I redirected the message to > -questions. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Tucker) writes: > > > I have been trying to set max file size limits for class of users on > > my system. I have tried to setup a specific class for this purpose and > > > while it "cap_mkdb's" with no error messages when I copy files over to > > > the users directory I find that I can upload files of any size! > > The process filesize limit affects how big a file the user can *create*, > not how large a file she can *own*. If you want to limit the latter, > you use disk quotas. [There is a section on them in the FreeBSD > Handbook.] > > Good luck. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"