From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 23:43:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A368B16AD70 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 23:43:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dead_line@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (bay20-f21.bay20.hotmail.com [64.4.54.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C22D43D45 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 23:43:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dead_line@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:43:31 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 195.39.128.182 by by20fd.bay20.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 23 May 2006 23:43:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [195.39.128.182] X-Originating-Email: [dead_line@hotmail.com] X-Sender: dead_line@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060521201114.11c166e0@64.7.153.2> From: "Marwan Sultan" To: mike@sentex.net Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:43:31 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2006 23:43:31.0965 (UTC) FILETIME=[B31152D0:01C67EC2] Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quota and /var/mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:43:36 -0000 Hello Mike, Thank you again for your support, this is the output of mount and fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw,userquota,groupquota 2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 $ mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, with quotas, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1g on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) I just want the quota to read the Shell user (home directory) size plus the INBOX mails which stay in /var/mail/$UserName Currently the quota reads the home directory and ignores the $inbox Thak you mike Marwan >At 07:37 PM 21/05/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > >> No when I enabled quota I did the configuration on /usr >> shall i enable it on /var to? >> then how to make the sendmail or the shell reads the user quota on his >>home directory and >> his /var/mail/$username ? > > >Hi, > It all depends on how you have it mounted. Quotas follow the >partition. So if you have /var/mail as its own partition, you need to do it >there. If you have /var/mail as a subdirectory of /var than do it on /var. > >What is the contents of /etc/fstab on the box ? > >> if webmin can read the home directory quota and add to it the >>/var/mail/$userInbox size >> then for sure I can do it some how? > >I dont use webmin so I am not sure how it calculates things. > > ---Mike > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/