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From: mmajka@next.com (Marc Majka)
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Subject: Re: Toward a "Public NeXT Lab" guidebook
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Date: 19 Jun 91 21:01:58 GMT
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EPS writes:
> Quotas are evil; [...]

True, but a System Administrator is sometimes caught in the
crossfire.  Quotas may be a "necessary" evil.  This thread
reminded me that I wrote a disk space and printer page quota
package which might be useful to those who need to be evil :-)
I just cleaned it up a bit and put it up on cs.orst.edu, in
pub/next/submissions/Quotas.tar.Z, and on cs.ubc.ca, in
next/ubc/Quotas.tar.Z on cs.ubc.ca.  I could not connect with
purdue, so I'll try puting it over there later.

*Disclaimer*
This stuff was written when I worked for the University of
British Columbia, and it did what it needed to do.  It is not
a product of, nor supported by NeXT.  Feel free to cut it up,
use any parts you want, and pass it around.

Nutshell description: Users have new NetInfo Properties
(pageusage, pagequota, diskquota).  Page quotas do NOT work
on NeXT printers.  /usr/lib/transcript/psif updates NetInfo.
A "du" based disk usage checker gets run by cron at 4am.
Users over disk quota, or low on space get mailed a message.
Chronic over-quota users get a * in their password after a
while.  A "Quotas" App allows users to inspect their own
usage and quotas, and permits managers to change them.
I forget if I put it in the package, but I ran a program
that did "du -s ~ > ~/.diskusage" from LogoutHook.  The
Quotas App uses that value if it exists (and is faster!).

As an added bonus, you get an App called PrinterQueue, which
watches a printer queue.  It is much like PrintManager's
"Queue", but it lists jobs they you own in bold and
doesn't permit reconfiguration of the printer.

If you are interested, grab a copy and *read* the README.wn
file.  Installation requires some knowledge.

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Marc Majka, Speaking for Himself