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warnquota

WARNQUOTA(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      WARNQUOTA(8)

NAME

       warnquota - send mail to users over quota

SYNOPSIS

       warnquota [ -ugsid ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -q quotatab ] [ -c configfile ] [ -a adminsfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       warnquota  checks the disk quota for each local filesystem and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their softlimit.	It
       is typically run via cron(8).

       -F, --format=quotaformat
	      Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection).  Possible format names  are:  vfsold  Original  quota
	      format with 16-bit UIDs / GIDs, vfsv0 Quota format with 32-bit UIDs / GIDs, 64-bit space usage, 32-bit inode usage and limits, vfsv1
	      Quota format with 64-bit quota limits and usage, xfs Quota on XFS filesystem.

       -q, --quota-tab=quotatab
	      Use quotatab instead of /etc/quotatab as file with device description strings (see example file for syntax).

       -c, --config=configfile
	      Use configfile instead of /etc/warnquota.conf as configuration file (see example file for syntax).

       -a, --admins-file=adminsfile
	      Use adminsfile instead of /etc/quotagrpadmins as a file with administrators of the groups.

       -u, --user
	      check whether users are not exceeding quotas (default).

       -g, --group
	      check whether groups are not exceeding quotas. If group is exceeding quota a mail is sent to the user specified in  /etc/quotagrpad-
	      mins.

       -s, --human-readable
	      Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than the default ones.

       -i, --no-autofs
	      ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter.

       -d, --no-details
	      do not attach quota report in email.

FILES

       aquota.user	   quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       quota.user	   quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       /etc/warnquota.conf configuration file
       /etc/quotatab	   device description
       /etc/quotagrpadmins administrators of the groups
       /etc/mtab	   default filesystems
       /etc/passwd	   default set of users

SEE ALSO

       quota(1), cron(8), edquota(8).

AUTHORS

       warnquota(8) was written by Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>, modifications by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>.  This reference page writ-
       ten by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>, modifications by Jan Kara

																      WARNQUOTA(8)