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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!shore!nvp From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Limiting /tmp usage Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:39:30 GMT Organization: Shore.Net; a service of Eco Software, Inc. (info@shore.net) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <59n1n2$495@fridge-nf0.shore.net> References: <59mvr4$283@fridge-nf0.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.shore.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:52228 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32949 Brian Beaulieu (brianb@shore.net) wrote: : I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA with system quotas. I was wondering how I : could limit the usage of /tmp by users. The quota fs is /usr/home, which : doesn't include /tmp. Has anyone found a solution for this problem? Even easier than quotas. Run a cron that job clears out /tmp (by uid, perhaps) every x m/h/day, whatever. Naturally, advise your users of this. :) You could even write the script your cron job executes to warn (via e-mail, zwrite, etc) users that in x amount of time their files will be removed from /tmp. -- Nate [nvp@shore.net||nvp@nfic.com] "Take them to the Iron Maiden" IRON MAIDEN ... EXCELLENT! "Execute them!" BOGUS... - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure