Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:31:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: "Paul S. Puth" <pputh@oanet.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for warn quota tools Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020611173027.14838E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020611152151.00acbb30@pop.oanet.com>
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I always just used the following script in the /etc/csh.login:
#if ("`quota | grep '\*'`" != "") then
# echo Warning: Quota Exceeded:
# quota
#endif
Given that the output of the quota command is fairly parseable, a little
bit of scripting or perl should do the trick.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Paul S. Puth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a tool that will email to the user if his/her account
> (more specifically email box) is approaching quota limit. I've searched
> everywhere for such a tool but to no avail.
>
> On Linux, there is a tool called "warnquota" that fits my need but I am
> running FreeBSD 4.5 -RELEASE so I can't utilize that tool. Also, from
> searching on google, I've found a tool called "psntools" that has the
> warnquota feature but it doesn't work on a filesystem that has a mailspool.
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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