Hello,

CentOS 5 multiuser environment, SELinux enabled, /home and /tmp noexec.

I have recently set up a host for our users to process and store log files instead of using their own desktop machines. The previous incarnation of this was constantly short of space, so I have implemented user quotas.

I have not been able to find a way to notify a user of their current quota usage, except for warnquota, and for various reasons notifying the users via email is not appropriate (even to their mail account on the machine itself). Ideally I would like to output the user's current usage on login and have the user able to generate the report themselves.

At the moment, I have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes that greps the relevant info from repquota and writes to to a (read only) .quota file in the root of their home directories. I have added a script to /etc/bashrc to detect whether this file exists and if so cat it on login.

Is there any way to make the report real-time, or is there a way for a user to initiate their own report?


Thanks,

sgb

You could give them sudo to run warnquota only.

Thanks, but I have found the solution and I'm pretty ashamed to say it's very straightforward. After trying various things, such as your sudo suggestion against the utility 'repquota', which outputs to the command line instead of mail, I found the simple 'quota' utility which reports the user's personal quota.

What had me barking up the wrong tree is that the repquota man page says the following:

'Only the super-user may view quotas which are not their own'

suggesting that end users should be able to view their own quota with repquota. That does not seem to be the case. 'quota' is the correct utility.

Thanks for your help.

sgb

If anyone is interested, this is the line that will go in /etc/skel/bashrc

Which will output this on login:

Regards,

sgb