How can you limit a user's disk space? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:59:59 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jeff Halper shaped the electrons to say...
>I just had a user whose email file contained 321 megabytes of stuff!! Seems
>he was using us as some sort of data-warehouse - I haven't any idea what he
>was doing, but he has only logged in 35 minutes in a month! I can see that
>users like this can cripple a system. (This 321 megs of data came in during
>the last 5 hours)

The system WPI used to keep /usr/spool/mail/ clear.

Cron job would routinely move any email larger can 'x' size to the file
'mbox' in the users home directory.

They used the UNIX quota system to limit user home directory sizes.

End result - you either read your mail routinely or it goes into the bit
bucket when the quota is hit and the cron job can't save the mail.

-MZ

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