On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Backward Thinker wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to trigger an action or command as a user
> passes their soft quota limits? I looked in the Linux Quota mini-HOWTO,
> and I didn't see anything that would really trigger a script or
> anything. The best solution I see is a periodic cron job to examine
> quotas and take action if a user is over the soft limit, but it seems
> like there should be a better way...? This is with a 2.4.x kernel
> compiled with quota support and an ext3 filesystem, but I'm open to
> other filesystems if they have the feature and ext3 simply doesn't.
If you find one, make sure it has limits so a user can't DoS you like
this:
fill up ~ to 1 KB less than soft limit
while true ; do
dd if=/dev/zero of=small-file bs=1K count=2
rm small-file
done
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