WARNQUOTA(8) 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 filesystem and mails a warning
message to those users who have reached their softlimit. It is typi-
cally run via cron(8).
-F quotaformat
Perform setting 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)
-q quotatab
Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device
description strings (see example file for syntax).
-c configfile
Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration
file (see example file for syntax).
-a adminsfile
Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with
administrators of the groups.
-u check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).
-g check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is
exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in
/etc/quotagrpadmins.
-s Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in
more appropriate units than the default ones.
-i ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.
-d don’t 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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