Re: Many students - each with own DB - would like to restrict size of each DB

2001-07-23 Thread Surinder S. Dio
Hi, Thx for the reply. On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:51:47PM +0200, Werner Stuerenburg wrote: > Databases for MySQL are just subdirectories, as you may already > know, so you may very easily restrict disc usage on those subdirs > for each student. I'm not sure how relevant this will be - but I s

Re: Many students - each with own DB - would like to restrict size of each DB

2001-07-23 Thread Werner Stuerenburg
I think this is a problem similar to that of ISPs. I don't know about this technique personally, as I am not fit on Linux/Unix, but restricting disc space on those systems is standard, so you will know how to do that. Databases for MySQL are just subdirectories, as you may already know, so you ma

Many students - each with own DB - would like to restrict size of each DB

2001-07-23 Thread Surinder S. Dio
Hi, I work in a university and need to give students access to a MySQL database from their php enabled web server. The apache/php stuff is all working but I was wondering on some advise as to how best to deal with a large number of students. Ideally waht I'd like to do is to setup MySQL so tha