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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User Quotas -- Need Help Date: 10 Aug 1996 14:57:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ui804$1k5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4uh4q1$20k@jaxnet.southeast.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jwilds@jax-inter.net wrote: > I've got freebsd boxes up and running and for just my own use have > done well. Now I have run into a problem. I'm trying to enable > internet accounts which isn't a problm excet for the fact that a user > could fill the the filesystem overnight. Does anyone know what the > format is of the file quotas? The online manuals talk of this file but > never give a format or how its created. I don't think the format of the file is of much concern to you. You are supposed to use edquota(8) to administer it. See also /usr/share/doc/smm/04.quota/. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)