Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: mail and disk quotas Message-ID: <6679@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 04:00:56 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6679 Posted: Thu Dec 20 04:00:56 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:21:10 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 22 > How does this happen? Don't tell me you put quotas on /usr!!! People's > stuff queued up in /usr/spool/* shouldn't affect their disk quotas > as long as you haven't gone and done this questionable thing. > Tom Christiansen Tom (et al), I was just trying to give some of the permutations to consider when setting up a quota system aimed at someone who seemed to be at the very early stages of setting this up. Why is it not reasonable to set quotas on /usr? It may be inconvenient but so would incapacitating a system for everybody by someone flooding a disk. If the users were completely reasonable/responsible why use the quota system at all??? Yes, I do set (*large*) quotas on /usr, haven't had a complaint yet. [geez, ya try ta help ya get yer head bitten off!] -Barry Shein, Boston University