RE: [cobalt-users] Active Monitor---Help

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> "New Wave Industries, Inc." <newwave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Active monitor is saying the the user for that account is
> > close to his limit yet, there is nothing in the users
> > directory or in his mail spool.
> > Why?  Where can I start looking? What I'm I looking for?
>
> Use the command find to find all files owned by that user. F.ex. like
> this:
>
> log in as admin
> su -
> cd /
> find . -user <username>
>
>
> He may have put files in weird places on the server.

For example, I have a huge quota on our Qube (40% of the disk!), yet I got this
warning for my user. It turned out that I had been uploading lots of stuff to
the public directories on the Qube, which the whole office uses, yet all the
files were "owned" by me.

I've now turned on the setgid bit on the public folders, such that now all files
placed into those directories are owned by a specific (fictitious) user in its
own group. That way, no real users' quotas are affected, and it has the fringe
benefit of providing me with an easy way to see how much space is being used by
those files.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>