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

NAME

warnquota - send mail to users over quota

SYNOPSIS

warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ]

DESCRIPTION

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

Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold Original quota format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and limits, vfsv1 Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage, 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).
Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.
check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).
check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpadmins.
Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.
ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
do not attach quota report in email.

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/quotagrpadmins
administrators of the groups
/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