On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:54:18PM -0500, James Blackwell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:16:02PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > tmpreaper is to clean up stale locks and stuff like that. People > > caught *filling* /tmp get their accounts deleted, because they broke > > the box. > > Hmm. What would you do to the sysadmin that hadn't setup quota?
Quotas on /tmp aren't hugely practical/useful - it's too small. This is one of those things which falls under "Don't be a dick" in the rules for users - don't run forkbombs, don't consume all cpu cycles all the time at priority 0, and don't fill /tmp. Quotas on /home depend on expected use. They're sometimes useful, sometimes not. If not, see "Don't be a dick". As a general rule, the available space needs to be on the order of (active users * quota per user) for quotas to be useful (note that 'on the order of' means it could be, for example, half that value, but not 1% of it). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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