Re: [cobalt-users] raq2, letter to Cobalt

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx>]

RaQ 2 active monitor over-quota spam may be disabled by editing a perl
script as root.  Note that installing an OS Update package will
overwrite any changes you make to the system file described.

User over-quota messages may be avoided by commenting three
"repair_notify" lines from the perl script /usr/local/sbin/monitor.  

The first, for user quotas, can be found near line 198.
Change it from:

              # is already at 100%.
              push(@tell,$user);
            }
            Cobalt::Repair::repair_notify($svr,$user,@tell);
          }

to:
              # is already at 100%.
              push(@tell,$user);
            }
            # Cobalt::Repair::repair_notify($svr,$user,@tell);
          }

And the other two, for groups, are at lines 214 and 219.
Change monitor from:

            {
              # tell the group admins, cc: the system admin
              Cobalt::Repair::repair_notify($svr,$group,@admins);
            }
            else
            {
              # tell the system admin only
              Cobalt::Repair::repair_notify($svr,$group);
            }

to:

            {
              # tell the group admins, cc: the system admin
              # Cobalt::Repair::repair_notify($svr,$group,@admins);
            }
            else
            {
              # tell the system admin only
              # Cobalt::Repair::repair_notify($svr,$group);
            }

I hope this can help you immediately.  Alternately you can change the
arguments that repair_notify is being fed by reading Robert Fisher's
post.


	-- Will


Henk Heidema wrote:
> 
> Open letter to Cobalt.
> 
> After many requests for support and postings on this list I would like to
> draw your attention to this problem.
> The Cobalt raq2 has been configured to automatically send messages with
> reference to quota excursions.
> This may be a handy feature from a server-technical point of view,
> commercially it is a nightmare!
> I try to keep a good relationship with my customers, by serving them with
> advice when ever it seems they need more space or features to their domains.
> It is therfore totally unacceptable that a machine spams my customers in a
> completely unacceptable and uncontrolable way.
> 
> I have been asking several times for a way to cancel this feature, but no
> result.
> Therefore I try again, with this letter, to convince Cobalt of the
> absurdness of this message system and to ask them to provide a way to cancel
> it, so I will be the only one addressing my customers.
> 
> Best Regards
> Henk Heidema
> 
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