Problem with quotas on root partition on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-03-29 Thread M. Vale
Hi, on FreeBSD 8.0 (i386 or AMD64) if we configure to use quotas on root partition. It stops on boot with the following message: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a mount option userquota is unknown mount option groupquota is unknown ROOT MOUNT ERROR: mount option groupquota is unknown

how to decide if disk / system is quotas capable

2009-08-25 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi, I am writing a script in which I want to decide if disk / system is capable to set quotas for user / groups. how to check it? I am thinking about 1) checking enable_quotas=YES in /etc/rc.conf 2) should I try to look in /etc/fstab? There is userquota and / or groupquota in line for some disk

Re: how to decide if disk / system is quotas capable

2009-08-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, 1) checking enable_quotas=YES in /etc/rc.conf 2) should I try to look in /etc/fstab? There is userquota and / or groupquota in line for some disk device in option field. That is enough. 1) will tell you that the system is quota capable 2) will tell you what file system is quota capabel

Quotas via NFS

2008-08-13 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, the handbook (§18.15.4 Quotas over NFS) doesn't seem to be particularly clear to me. Here is the situation: * HOST_A -- web + db server ~ - /usr is mounted with quotas enabled ~[ /dev/ad0s1e /usr ufs rw,userquota 2 2 ] ~ - /usr

Disk quotas out of sync

2008-08-07 Thread Simon
Hello Folks, Ever since I went from 6.x to 7.x I have started experiencing disk quotas getting out of sync, way out of sync. For example, a user with 160GB quota suddenly shows usage of only 120GB This forces me to run quotacheck -av often. Was something changed regarding quotas in 7.x? Nobody

Setting quotas on nested directories

2008-05-27 Thread Aaron Holmes
Hello all, I want to set quotas on nested directories; ie: /mnt/docs has the directories legal and IT I want to limit legal to 50GB. How can this be done, if at all? From my googleing, it looks like any filesystems you want to apply quotas need to be be 1) in /etc/fstab and 2) mounted Thanks

Re: Setting quotas on nested directories

2008-05-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 27), Aaron Holmes said: Hello all, I want to set quotas on nested directories; ie: /mnt/docs has the directories legal and IT I want to limit legal to 50GB. How can this be done, if at all? From my googleing, it looks like any filesystems you want to apply quotas

samba/cups printer with quotas?

2008-03-31 Thread B. Cook
Hello All, Someone here just got back from an Apple 'show'. They were told that Leopard Server (powered by cups and samba) could give us quota control as well as authenticated printing with 'history' (as to who printed what and how many pages.. ) I am still trying to get a clue on this..

Quotas within a jail

2007-11-18 Thread Josh
How can I do quotas within a jail? The jail runs on its own partition. Any suggestions here? Do I have to do any mincing around where I sync uid/groups to the host system? Is there any semi elegant way to do this? Thanks, Josh ___ freebsd

MySQL Quotas

2007-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hi, I am posting this here thinking this may be more of an OS thing than a mysql thing... Since all mysql databases and tables need to be owned by the mysql user, is there, er, has anyone figured out a way to impose disk quotas per database for mysql? -Grant

Re: MySQL Quotas

2007-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Grant Peel wrote: I am posting this here thinking this may be more of an OS thing than a mysql thing... Since all mysql databases and tables need to be owned by the mysql user, is there, er, has anyone figured out a way to impose disk quotas per database for mysql? Databases tend to lose

Server Move - Quotas

2007-05-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am about to migrate about 250 domains from 1 server to another. The OLD server is running FreeBSD 4.7 and the new one is 6.2. Every domain has a real UNIX user whos home is in the /home directory. We are using user quotas to manage disk space. Can I directly copy the user.quota file

Re: Server Move - Quotas

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 24), Grant Peel said: I am about to migrate about 250 domains from 1 server to another. The OLD server is running FreeBSD 4.7 and the new one is 6.2. Every domain has a real UNIX user whos home is in the /home directory. We are using user quotas to manage disk

Re: Quotas on 6.2

2007-04-29 Thread Mark Tinguely
I am using quotas in FreeBSD 6.2 with soft limits == hard limits, and the hard limits are being enforsed (mail/ftp etc). This is a non-root filesystem. There is one patch for quota that I supplied and was recently applied to -current that is appropriate for FreeBSD 5.x-7.x that has to do

Re: Quotas on 6.2

2007-04-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On Apr 29, 2007, at 06:26, Mark Tinguely wrote: I am using quotas in FreeBSD 6.2 with soft limits == hard limits, and the hard limits are being enforsed (mail/ftp etc). This is a non-root filesystem. There is one patch for quota that I supplied and was recently applied to -current

Quotas on 6.2

2007-04-28 Thread Doug Hardie
I understand quotas were broken in 6.1. I am testing 6.2 where I thought they were working again. However, it behaves considerably differently from 5.x. I set both a hard and soft limit on a user to the same value. Adding disk usage to that user past that limit succeeds. quota shows

quotas on 6.2

2007-04-03 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm trying to enable quotas on 6.2 following the handbook. I've added: options QUOTA to my kernel config, recompiled and installed. I then added: enable_quotas=YES check_quotas=NO to /etc/rc.conf and finally added both userquota and group options to my /, /var, and /usr

Re: print quotas in CUPS

2007-01-28 Thread Grant Wagner
/printers.conf from your system? If it contains the options which enable quotas for a certain printer, you should see something like `PageLimit', then this is the `quota' that you see mentioned above. - Giorgos Here is my cups printers.conf file. # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.7 # Written

Re: print quotas in CUPS (was: Re: Can not compile kernel.)

2007-01-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
options in the printers.conf file though. Can you show us the contents of the file: /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf from your system? If it contains the options which enable quotas for a certain printer, you should see something like `PageLimit', then this is the `quota' that you see mentioned

quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Vladimir Dvorak
Hello, I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? I set up my system as follows: 1. this is setting in main environment cat /etc/fstab | grep VSERVERS /dev/ad3s1f /VSERVERS ufs rw,noatime,groupquota=/VSERVERS/machine1/quotagroup,userquota

Re: quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Björn König
Vladimir Dvorak schrieb: I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? [...] It seems to be impossible ( some kernel restriction ). :-( Is there some way to allow this ? My last idea was to replicate users and groups to main system and use quotas from

Re: quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Vladimir Dvorak
Björn König wrote: Vladimir Dvorak schrieb: I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? [...] It seems to be impossible ( some kernel restriction ). :-( Is there some way to allow this ? My last idea was to replicate users and groups to main system and use

Re: quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Michal Mertl
Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? Yes, it is, although with some restrictions. You have to enable the disk quotas from the host (have them listed in host's /etc/fstab). To operate the quotas from inside the jail quotas

Re: quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michal Mertl wrote: Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? Yes, it is, although with some restrictions. You have to enable the disk quotas from the host (have them listed in host's /etc/fstab

Re: quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11 Jan 2006, at 16:36, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michal Mertl wrote: Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? Yes, it is, although with some restrictions. You have to enable the disk quotas from

Re: quotas + jail ?

2006-01-11 Thread Michal Mertl
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michal Mertl wrote: Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have simple question - is possible to use quotas in jail(8) environment ? Yes, it is, although with some restrictions. You have to enable the disk quotas from the host (have them

Re: setting a quotas default

2005-11-08 Thread Derrick MacPherson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 20:26 -0800, Derrick MacPherson wrote: i have proftpd getting users out of a mysql DB, and it's set to create home dirs automaticaly; how do i get there to be a quota automaticaly be placed on the users? can this not be done?

Re: setting a quotas default

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Nelson
this not be done? What I do is just prefill the quotas for as many users as you expect to have, using the edquota command. Assuming your uids start at 1000 and you already have user 1000's quotas set: edquota -p 1000 1001-2000 will copy userid 1000's quotas to the next 1000 users to get created

setting a quotas default

2005-11-07 Thread Derrick MacPherson
i have proftpd getting users out of a mysql DB, and it's set to create home dirs automaticaly; how do i get there to be a quota automaticaly be placed on the users? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Quotas not working on FreeBSD 5.4 for amd64

2005-10-22 Thread MELVIN D. NAVA
Good Afternoon, this is my first post ever to this list and I hope is the right place... Recently (three weeks ago) I bought one dedicated server with FreeBSD 5.4-release for amd64 and I haven't been able to use quotas, after I tried to enable quotas in fstab over the home filesystem

Quotas not working on FreeBSD 5.4 for amd64

2005-10-22 Thread MELVIN D. NAVA
Good Afternoon, this is my first post ever to this list and I hope is the right place... Recently (three weeks ago) I bought one dedicated server with FreeBSD 5.4-release for amd64 and I haven't been able to use quotas, after I tried to enable quotas in fstab over the home filesystem

Re: Quotas not working on FreeBSD 5.4 for amd64

2005-10-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, MELVIN D. NAVA wrote: Recently (three weeks ago) I bought one dedicated server with FreeBSD 5.4-release for amd64 and I haven't been able to use quotas, after I tried to enable quotas in fstab over the home filesystem and rebooting, the system just hanged so I checked

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-05 Thread stheg olloydson
--- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 11:39 pm, you wrote: it was said: snip Argh! I ought to quit posting things until I've had at least two good nights of sleep. bin/57641 does appear to me to address the same issue as my patch:

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On Saturday 05 March 2005 08:33 pm, stheg olloydson wrote: --- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 11:39 pm, you wrote: it was said: snip Argh! I ought to quit posting things until I've had at least two good nights of sleep. bin/57641 does appear to me to

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: OK, I see the error in my ways. My goal is to use file-based filesystems that are preserved acoss boots

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: OK, I see the error in my ways. My goal is to use file-based filesystems

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:56 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: OK, I see the error in my

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 04 March 2005 10:33 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 05:56 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: snip So after all that, NOW I notice that there is already a published patch for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/74105 Oh, well. It was an amusing exercise. - Bob Eh? Maybe _I_ am the one missing something. The link you provided goes to a patch for IPX.

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 04 March 2005 11:39 pm, stheg olloydson wrote: it was said: snip So after all that, NOW I notice that there is already a published patch for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/74105 Oh, well. It was an amusing exercise. - Bob Eh? Maybe _I_ am the one

Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-03 Thread Michael R. Wayne
Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: md /home mfs rw,-F/vnodes/home,nosuid,nodev,noexec,userquota 2 0 would work but it's not. Can I get a working example

MySQL Disk Quotas per User/Group

2005-02-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been struggling with how to include a users MySQL disk usage within thier disk quota. Currently, each user has a disk quota set on thier /home/usernamehere directory The mysql databases are kept in the /home/usernamehere/database directory, but, mysql insists on owning the

disk quotas and nfs

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Risdon
If machine A exports an nfs filesystem and machines B and C both mount it as, say, /usr/home then how is it best to enforce common disk quotas? If machine A is enforcing quotas and all the password files are synchronised so user uids and gids are identical across all the machines

Re: disk quotas and nfs

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 27), Peter Risdon said: If machine A exports an nfs filesystem and machines B and C both mount it as, say, /usr/home then how is it best to enforce common disk quotas? If machine A is enforcing quotas and all the password files are synchronised so user uids and gids

Re: disk quotas and nfs

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:25 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 27), Peter Risdon said: If machine A exports an nfs filesystem and machines B and C both mount it as, say, /usr/home then how is it best to enforce common disk quotas? If machine A is enforcing quotas and all

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, dave wrote: Hello, Hello. Got a question on quotas. I've enabled them on /usr and /var filesystems by adding the userquota option to their options in fstab. This is after i recompiled my kernel with the QUOTA option in it and rebooted. I then added: enable_quotas=YES

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread dave
Hello, I set the check_quota option to no in rc.conf because on boot i did not want the long delay in startup that quota checks cause. Is this my issue? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, dave wrote: I set the check_quota option to no in rc.conf because on boot i did not want the long delay in startup that quota checks cause. Is this my issue? I think so. About the long startup delay, as an example, I have a server (Dell 2850) which spends less than 2

Re: quotas on 5.3

2004-11-19 Thread David E. Meier
Hi Dave, you can run the command: # /sbin/quotacheck -avgu This will create your quota.user file. Because you have set check_quotas=NO you can run the quotacheck command via cron task: 0 4 * * * root /sbin/quotacheck -avgu /dev/null HTH, Dave. Hello, Got a question on quotas. I've

quotas on 5.3

2004-11-18 Thread dave
Hello, Got a question on quotas. I've enabled them on /usr and /var filesystems by adding the userquota option to their options in fstab. This is after i recompiled my kernel with the QUOTA option in it and rebooted. I then added: enable_quotas=YES check_quotas=NO to /etc/rc.conf and again

Moving quotas from partition to partition

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm about to move my server up to a larger drive, and I'd like to know if it's possible to use an existing quota file, or migrate the quota file somehow onto the new drive? Otherwise, it's going to be a LOT of work by hand. -Dan Mahoney PS, is this question better asked in -hackers?

Filesystem quotas

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Burchell
In testing features on a FreeBSD mini installation I have modified the /etc/fstab file so that the / partition is 'rq' instead of 'rw' - this was done to enable quotas so I could try working with them. (the man page said 'rq' was read/write/with quotas) for ease of testing, the system was only

Re: Filesystem quotas

2004-11-03 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Chris Burchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]... In testing features on a FreeBSD mini installation I have modified the /etc/fstab file so that the / partition is 'rq' instead of 'rw' - this was done to enable quotas so I could try working with them. (the man page said 'rq

Disk quotas

2004-10-02 Thread John Oxley
The Scenario: I am running a multiuser FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE box for ~500 users. We have enforced disk quotas on /home and /tmp of 250MB soft and 256MB hard The Problem: One user has inadvertently snaked around this. (btw I like users who tell you when they have found a problem that works

Re: Disk quotas

2004-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:29:00AM +0200, John Oxley wrote: The Question: Can quota be told that all files in ~luser belong to luser as well as all files owned by luser. The simplest way to do that is to give each user their own individual group, and then simply use the *group* quotas

Re: Disk quotas

2004-10-02 Thread Richard Lynch
John Oxley wrote: has gallery setup on his webpage and the albums directory is chmod 707'd so that httpd can write to it. Does that user realize that everybody else on the server can use PHP to write web content to that directory?... Perhaps if a defacement example were demonstrated, he'd move

Re: 16-character username limit in quotas?

2004-08-20 Thread Chris Dillon
. don't seem to have a problem with these long names (nsswitch is great!), so they must not pay any attention to MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE and that's what made me think it was specific to quotas. Is there any reason this couldn't be bumped up to 32 characters (or more) by default for better

16-character username limit in quotas?

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Dillon
I've just run into a 16-character username limit in our quota support, or at least in the edquota command itself (5-CURRENT): edquota -u -e /afilesystem:614400:716800:4000:5000 areallylongusername edquota: areallylongusern: no such user Does anybody know what would it take to raise this limit to

Re: 16-character username limit in quotas?

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 19), Chris Dillon said: I've just run into a 16-character username limit in our quota support, or at least in the edquota command itself (5-CURRENT): edquota -u -e /afilesystem:614400:716800:4000:5000 areallylongusername edquota: areallylongusern: no such user

User quotas in a jail

2004-03-31 Thread r_dal
Hi, I wasn't sure of the best way to manage quotas on a jailed system, I'm running FreeBSD v4.9. I have several file systems mounted on the host system and have quotas enabled on the /var partition where I'm running the jail. Since the password db is different between the host and jail(s

Enabling quotas

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate what changes I need to make to the new kernel configuration before

Re: Enabling quotas

2004-03-10 Thread Robert Barten
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:00:50AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate

Enabling quotas

2004-03-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate what changes I need to make to the new kernel configuration before

Re: Enabling quotas

2004-03-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:30:07AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I am running 5.2.1 and trying to enable quotas, I see that I need to build and install my own custom kernel to support this? I read the Chapter 9 in the Handbook, but don't quite understand one thing. I can't seem to locate

Enabling quotas

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running 5.2.1, I found the docs on how to enable quotas and build a custom kernel because it is not built into GENERIC, but I can't find out what to change my custom kernel before building it. Can someone tell me what to look for and change in my custom version of GENERIC to enable quotas

Re: Enabling quotas

2004-02-29 Thread zam4ever
- Original Message From: Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Enabling quotas Date: 01/03/04 07:57 I am running 5.2.1, I found the docs on how to enable quotas and build a custom kernel because it is not built into GENERIC, but I

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Greg Bernard
Le 11/01/04 23:12, « Mike Maltese » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:28PM +0100, Greg Bernard wrote: Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:34:53AM +0100, Greg Bernard wrote: Le 11/01/04 23:12, ??Mike Maltese?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit?: Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Uwe Doering
Greg Bernard wrote: Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size will not go crazy. You could switch to Cyrus IMAP

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-12 Thread Dan Pelleg
Greg Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size will not go crazy

Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-11 Thread Greg Bernard
Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size will not go crazy. Thanks for your advices

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

2004-01-11 Thread Mike Maltese
Is there another way to limit the amount of space occupied by mail files on a per user basis using another method than quotas ? I would like to limit the amount of space available for each user's e.mail so e.mail file size will not go crazy. Is there an option to limit message size

courier-imap + exim quotas

2003-10-20 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Hello, Can somebody please tell me how to implement quotas using courier-imap and exim. The docs on this seem quite lacking! Matthew Faircliff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: courier-imap + exim quotas

2003-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:15:02AM +, Matthew Faircliff wrote: Can somebody please tell me how to implement quotas using courier-imap and exim. The docs on this seem quite lacking! Quotas aren't provided by the mail software -- they are a function of the filesystem that you store

Re: courier-imap + exim quotas

2003-10-20 Thread Matthew Faircliff
Hello Matthew, Thanks for the info. I am sorry I did not word my question properly - what I meant was: Can somebody please tell me how to implement quotas using courier-imap and exim with virtual user maildirs? OS quotas solve quota issues for real system users; but how do you enforce quotas

Can Freebsd provides tree-based quotas.

2003-09-02 Thread latin roy
Hi, Can you please tell me if linux or freebsd is providing Tree-based quotas (directory quota) ? Please inform me if any other vendor is prividing it. Thanks in advance. latin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Re: Can Freebsd provides tree-based quotas.

2003-09-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Can you please tell me if linux or freebsd is providing Tree-based quotas (directory quota) ? As far as I know, FreeBSd does quotas based on per user/per filesystem. It does not do quotas based on subdirectories within a filesystem. If this has changed recently (eg 5.xx), I don't know

Re: virtual users quotas with Postfix, Courier-IMAP and MySQL

2003-07-12 Thread Hendry S.
upon mail i received, Alfonso Romero said that Hi, I currently have configured a FreeBSD 4.8 box with postfix, courier-imap and mysql to host virtual email accounts. But I can?t find info on how to limit space on virtual users' accounts. Has anyone in this list some info about this?

Re: virtual users quotas with Postfix, Courier-IMAP and MySQL

2003-07-12 Thread Alfonso Romero
: Hendry S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alfonso Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:15 AM Subject: Re: virtual users quotas with Postfix, Courier-IMAP and MySQL upon mail i received, Alfonso Romero said that Hi, I currently have configured a FreeBSD 4.8 box

virtual users quotas with Postfix, Courier-IMAP and MySQL

2003-07-10 Thread Alfonso Romero
Hi, I currently have configured a FreeBSD 4.8 box with postfix, courier-imap and mysql to host virtual email accounts. But I can´t find info on how to limit space on virtual users' accounts. Has anyone in this list some info about this? Thanks in advance. Alfonso Romero

Re: quotas on vnode disks

2003-07-08 Thread mark tinguely
: # mount /mnt/point (assuming you already made the /mnt/point/quota.user and /mnt/point/quota.group) let the quota consistancy program do it thing: # quotacheck /mnt/point turn on quotas: # quotaon /mnt/point If the configuration variable enable_quotas and check_quotas, are equal to YES this gets

quotas on vnode disks

2003-07-07 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Long story short. Is it possible to enable quota support on vnode disks as doing a mount -o usrquota,grpquota /dev/vn0 /mnt/point just isn't working for me Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just

Re: quotas on vnode disks

2003-07-07 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Long story short. Is it possible to enable quota support on vnode disks as doing a mount -o usrquota,grpquota /dev/vn0 /mnt/point just isn't working for me It should world since quota are FS related. If your

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-30 Thread Josh Brooks
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: If you're adventurous, you could use growfs :) Reading the archives, it seems as if you would use growfs, but then run into performance problems because you did not defragment afterward (and there is no defrag utility for UFS). Something about the

Re: tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2?

2003-06-30 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ryan Dooley wrote: Has anybody done work on Tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2? As an administrator I'm finding more and more reasons that such a thing would be a good thing. By tree-based you mean the ability to define this directory and everything under it gets X amount

Re: tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2?

2003-06-30 Thread Ryan Dooley
undertaking, maybe some hosting providers who use FreeBSD and would greatly benefit from such a feature would be willing to fund it. Yup... quotas per directory (not per user or group). I've been thinking I might take on such a project (I just need to devote some time on the good old calendar ;-) I

Re: tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2?

2003-06-30 Thread Dan Pelleg
Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ryan Dooley wrote: Has anybody done work on Tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2? As an administrator I'm finding more and more reasons that such a thing would be a good thing. The following is not a real solution

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi Dan, On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: Quotas are per-user, not per-directory. Any files those users create, anywhere in that filesystem, will contribute to their quota. Files created by other userids but placed in those directories will count against the other user's quota

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
be the quota. I'm not following this suggestion. Quotas are per-user, *per-filesystem*, as you said the first time. So it's not necessary to put each user's critical space on a different filesystem. In fact, what quotas do is protect users from each other on a given filesystem. What he

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Josh Brooks wrote: [ ... ] Again, I am just trying to take an arbitrary directory, say: /export/data7/homes/jerry and place a configurable limit on how big that directory can get, without mounting it as its own filesystem... FreeBSD doesn't have a filesystem with per-directory quota support.

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Ryan Thompson
Josh Brooks wrote to Lowell Gilbert: Again, I am just trying to take an arbitrary directory, say: /export/data7/homes/jerry and place a configurable limit on how big that directory can get, without mounting it as its own filesystem... FreeBSD doesn't support any filesystems that do this

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Sergey \DoubleF\ Zaharchenko
Josh Brooks wrote: So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory. So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to your

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi, On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: Josh Brooks wrote: So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory. So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to your directory. You should be solved then. Yes, I am

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:25:45AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it,

question regarding quotas

2003-06-28 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello! I have a group of 5 users that I want to set up quotas for - their home directories are: /export/data1/user1 /export/data1/user2 /export/data1/user3 /export/data1/user4 /export/data1/user5 And they will be given free reign to fill up those directories however they choose. At the same

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 28), Josh Brooks said: I have a group of 5 users that I want to set up quotas for - their home directories are: /export/data1/user1 /export/data1/user2 /export/data1/user3 /export/data1/user4 /export/data1/user5 And they will be given free reign to fill up

tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2?

2003-06-26 Thread Ryan Dooley
Hey, Has anybody done work on Tree-based quotas for UFS/UFS2? As an administrator I'm finding more and more reasons that such a thing would be a good thing. Cheers, Ryan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Panic on 5.1-RELEASE sparc64 - Quotas

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Haywood
of the message. I recreated the problem in single-user mode as follows: boot -s fsck -p mount -u / mount -a quotacheck Quotacheck caused the panic, it flashed past too quickly for me to catch any details. The system then tried to sync the disks and failed, and reset. Disabling quotas in rc.conf allowed

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