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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: disk quotas
Message-ID: <2036@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 19:46:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 19:46:13 1985
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Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY
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Disk quotas are good for stopping that overnight batch job that goes haywire
and loops while writing to a file.  The SA comes in in the morning and finds
30 feet of console output complaining about a full disk.  

For example:

	shar -bcv * > sharfile

Something this innocent looking can do it.


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