On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:07:37PM -0400, Matthew W Miller wrote: > {Big Snip} > How would a quota stop the user from stuffing /var to its limit? Isn't > that part of the problem where the user could stuff /var and hemorrage the > logs?
Through not allowing the user full access to the free space. Possible holes are: a. many users could accidentally or otherwise smurf the free space anyhow b. an opportune moment may happen where the free space left on /var is less then the quota allows. You could make the quota insanely small, but that may break what you're trying to do in allowing users /var access and it feels more of a little dutch boy solution. (picutre 5 yr old kid with finger stuffed in a hole of a dam, trying to stop it leaking :) > ::>more headaches for /tmp cleaners and it does not solve any of the > ::>above problems. to solve the above problems enforce quotas on /var > ::>(which can be much smaller then /home quotas, say 5 or 10 MB) that is > ::>what i do. > ::> > ::>-- > ::>Ethan Benson > ::>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'