[imp] REPOST: User Quotas - (im)possible scenario?

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Sun Mar 23 21:37:50 PST 2003


Eric Rostetter wrote:

>Yes.  NFS is an easy way, but probably overkill for your case, and could
>lower your site security if you're not already using NFS.
>
    Well, I do use NFS on my network, and the IMP server is actually 
*exporting* some mount points to the other machines.

>Or, do some 
>"semi-realtime" setup like others did (a cron job that fetches all the
>users' quotas remotely -- for example via ssh -- every hour, and then have
>IMP parse that file).
>
    This is assuming the file is in some readable format.  The actual 
quota file is in binary form I believe which leaves the output of 
'repquota' for parsing.

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