RE: [cobalt-users] disk quota errors

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Essentially what happens is that when you set up a user as the site admin
> with x amount of disk space, all files that get placed on the Cobalt count
> against their personal quota because the files are still technically owned
> by said user. My quick fix was to change the ownership of all files in the
> site web directory to nobody or admin. The files are still associated with
> the site and so the site's usage and quota still report correctly. And now
> the user's personal usage and quota stats are still intact. Here's a fix
> that I think could be considered. Once a site admin uploads to
> the site web
> directory have the Cobalt automatically change the ownership. It'd be
> simple, clean, and reasonably easy. Short of that have a cron go
> through and
> do it hourly or so. Just my two cents.
>

Why not just give the site and siteadmin adequate quotas and tell them not
to leave mail on the server? The non-siteadmin users don't need very large
quotas. If you chown the files to "admin" IIRC you will have problems later.
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Dan Kriwitsky