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WARNQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual WARNQUOTA(8)

NAME

warnquota - send mail to users over quota

SYNOPSIS

warnquota [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ]

DESCRIPTION

warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their limit. It is typically run via cron(8).

Perform checking for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).
Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax).

FILES

quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/warnquota.conf
configuration file
/etc/quotatab
device description
/etc/mtab
default filesystems
/etc/passwd
default set of users

SEE ALSO

quota(1), cron(8), edquota(8)

AUTHORS

warnquota(8) was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>. This reference page written by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>