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?
hmm quota seems to stop that just fine here:
[eb@socrates eb]$ cd /var/lock/
[eb@socrates lock]$ df /var
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8              1032088    298940    680720  31% /var
[eb@socrates lock]$ cat /dev/zero > bloat
/var: warning, user disk quota exceeded
                                       /var: write failed, user disk limit reached.
                                                                                   cat: write error: Disk quota exceeded
[eb@socrates lock]$ df /var
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8              1032088    314260    665400  32% /var
[eb@socrates lock]$
now what quota (nor moving /var/run/screen) will NOT fix is stuffing
/var via /usr/bin/logger (that is just a bit more work then the above)
-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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