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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!usenet From: mmead@neon.Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Default Quota? Date: 21 Mar 1996 17:02:21 GMT Organization: Glock Telecommunications Lines: 34 Message-ID: <MMEAD.96Mar21120221@neon.Glock.COM> References: <31505B47.438A@awinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: neon.glock.com NNTP-Posting-User: mmead In-reply-to: Paul Archard's message of Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:23:51 -0800 In article <31505B47.438A@awinc.com> Paul Archard <paul@awinc.com> writes: > Hi all, > Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question ;-) > I am attempting to install quotas on our 2.1 installation which > is running as a mail server - (bad idea?) > The problem is, there are about 10,000 users in the password > file, and I want to set a default quota limit of about 2.5 meg > per user. I don't really feel like doing a separate quota for > each user! > It seems to me that there must be a way to specify a default > quota limit, but I can't find any documentation on this. Can > someone please help me out? You have to specify it for each user. However, this isn't very difficult. You can write a shell script that grabs all the names from the password file and then runs edquota -p <protouser> <name from passwd file> on every name it finds. The <protouser> is just some random user that you use to store default quota information. This makes doing a batch job of quota setups very easy to perform, as you don't have to edit all of them by hand :-) Hope this helps... if you need more info let me know.... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/