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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 07:03:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Disk quota & informing non-shell users (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912270702540.7115-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>

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	I tried to send this to the list yesterday but I haven't seen it
come back from the list yet.  I appologise if you get this twice, but it
looks as if my first attempt didn't get into the system for some reason.

						Jaime

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:39:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Disk quota & informing non-shell users

	At work I have about 1000 (soon to be as many as 2000) users who
are limited to web-based and file-sharing access to their main server.
The web access in question is to their email, bookmarks, calendar, etc.
via a PHP3 program called TWIG.  File sharing access is via NetATalk and
Samba.  I've also added a password changing web page that uses a CGI to
pull off its tricks.

	My problem comes in when I need to install a disk quota system in
the next few weeks.  How do I notify the users of their disk usage?  If
there was a way to do this with PHP3, I could plug it right into TWIG and
let them see it when they check their email.  If there was a way to get
the netatalk-asun port to report available disk space as thedisk quota and
not the remaining space on the partition, then I would tell users to check
it that way.  (95% of our workstations are running MacOS 8.1 or higher,
there are very few Windows computers at my job.)

	Does anyone have a suggestion on this?  Is there something on
freshmeat.net that I didn't see?  Any web based or netatalk based
solutions would be greatly appreciated.  Of course, if there's another
solution that I overlooked, that would be great, too.  :)  The only way
that I've come up with to date is emailing all users their quota each
night, but if they're over quota, then they wouldn't be able to receive
that email....  :(

						Thanks in advance,
						Jaime




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