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).

-F, --format=quotaformat

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, xfs Quota on XFS filesystem.

-q, --quota-tab=quotatab

Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).

-c, --config=configfile

Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax).

-a, --admins-file=adminsfile

Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.

-u, --user

check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).

-g, --group

check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in /etc/quotagrpadmins.

-s, --human-readable

Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.

-i, --no-autofs

ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.

-d, --no-details

do not attach quota report in email.

FILES

aquota.user quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota,

non-XFS filesystems)

quota.user 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

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