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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 22:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: "R. David Whitlock" <ryandav@u.washington.edu>
To: UW Linux Group <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Using edquota on RH7.0 [was Re: quota on RH7.0]
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(I don't have edquota on my machine, but...)

The page here:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/cmds/aixcmds2/edquota.htm

documents some of the hard links/soft links features for edquota, taken
originally from AIX, but I don't see anything that specifies exactly the
file syntax for the /etc file.  You could probably just jump in and make a
change or two to the file and use showquota to check and see what the
result looks like afterwards and get it from there.

-David

	"What you hear isn't necessarily what was said,
 	what you read isn't necessarily what was written."
			-Dostoevsky

On Sun, 13 May 2001, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:

> Yeah, I do recall trying to run edquota before.  However, when editing the
> quota file for a particular user, what is the syntax to use in that file
> to specify hard/soft limits?  The man page does not mention this.
>
> Doug McLean
>
> 					"True words seem contradictory."
> 							--Lao Zi
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mike wrote:
>
> |It looks to me like 'edquota' might do what you want.
> |
> |% man -k quota
> |edquota              (8)  - edit user quotas
> |importquota          (8)  - change running parameters for customs
> |quota                (1)  - display disk usage and limits
> |quotacheck           (8)  - scan a file system for disk usages
> |quotactl             (2)  - manipulate disk quotas
> |quotaoff [quotaon]   (8)  - turn file system quotas on and off
> |quotaon              (8)  - turn file system quotas on and off
> |repquota             (8)  - summarize quotas for a file system
> |rpc.rquotad [rquotad] (8)  - remote quota server
> |rquota               (3)  - implement quotas on remote machines
> |rquotad              (8)  - remote quota server
> |
> |---------------------------
> |-=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=-
> |
> |On Thu, 10 May 2001 at 16:37, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:
> |
> ||How does one establish quotas for user accounts on a linux system like the
> ||one above?  I've read alont about Unix quotas, but this mainly applies to
> ||systems like AIX, and haven't worked with my linux box at home.  I've run
> ||the quota commands (I think its 'quotaon' and 'addquota' if I remember
> ||right), but I can't seem to be able to actually define what the account
> ||quotas will be.  Thanks!
> ||
> ||Doug McLean
> ||
> ||					"True words seem contradictory."
> ||							--Lao Zi
> ||
> |
> |
>
>
>

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