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Utility to Set Directory Quotas on a NSS Directory

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22 October 2009 - 10:45am
Submitted by: dvijayababu

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Prerequisites

  1. Perl must be installed and running on the Linux server where this utility will be used.
  2. NSS must be installed to get the VFS support.
    (The SDK for this API set can be downloaded from http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Virtual_File_Services_for_NetWare)

Details

This tool is used to set the directory quotas on a nss directory.

It uses Virtual File Services to set the directory quotas.

How to use the utility:

From a terminal prompt type: 

perl setDirectoryQuota.pl <enter>

Following menu will be displayed:

1.To set directory quotas
2.Exit
Select Action:

A sample output on selecting 1 would be:

Select Action: 1
Enter directory Name to set directory quota: /media/nss/NEW/directory
Enter the size (in MB): 10
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
direcoty quotas set on directory /media/nss/NEW/directory
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttachmentSize
setDirectoryQuota.pl.txt3.68 KB

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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