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warnquota - send mail to users over quota
warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile
] [ -a adminsfile ]
warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning
message to those users who have reached their softlimit. It is typically
run via cron(8)
.
- -F quotaformat
-
Perform setting for specified format (ie. don’t perform format
autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1
quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs
(quota on XFS filesystem)
- -q quotatab
-
Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device
description strings (see example file for syntax).
- -c configfile
-
Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration
file (see example file for syntax).
- -a adminsfile
-
Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with
administrators of the groups.
- -u
- check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).
- -g
- check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is
exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in
/etc/quotagrpadmins.
- -s
- Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in
more appropriate units than the default ones.
- -i
- ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
- -d
- don’t attach quota report in email.
- aquota.user
- quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,
non-XFS filesystems)
- quota.user
- quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota,
non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/warnquota.conf configuration file
- /etc/quotatab
- device description
/etc/quotagrpadmins administrators of the groups
- /etc/mtab
- default filesystems
- /etc/passwd
- default set of users
quota(1)
, cron(8)
, edquota(8)
.
warnquota(8)
was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>,
modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>. This reference page written
by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara
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