How do I set up soft quotas in virtualmin gpl with warnings?

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#1 Fri, 08/14/2009 - 13:43
jstapels

How do I set up soft quotas in virtualmin gpl with warnings?

I've been using Virtualmin GPL for a month now and have been pretty happy with it. Unfortunately I hit a problem today where a domains email stopped getting sent. They were over their quota and so, after upping the quota, things started working again.

My problem is that I had though I set the quota to soft limits only. They also said they never received any warning that they hit their limit. So my question is...

How do I setup a soft quota for a domain so a user is warned when they go over it, but the domain continues to function?

Sat, 08/15/2009 - 02:59
ronald
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Do you see: virtualmin - Limits and Validation - Disk Quota Monitoring ?

Sat, 08/15/2009 - 09:00
andreychek

Yeah, I don't actually know that you can utilize what Linux considers to be a "soft" quota, but as Ronald said, you can notify users as they near their limits.

You can pick when to notify them -- such as when reaching 75% of their quota.

-Eric

Sat, 08/15/2009 - 20:00
ronald
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you can use soft quota through the server template under Administration Options for new users, but I don't know how to change it for existing users. Sending out a mail would be a viable option though

Sat, 08/15/2009 - 22:47
jstapels

I checked under Limits and Validation but didn't find anything related notifying users. Is that part of Virtualmin Pro?

I did however see some email warnings under the Webmin Quota module, but I noticed that by default everyones quota was set to unlimited on there so I assumed Virtualmin did something different for enforcing them.

Also, I had setup the server template to use soft quotas but this didn't seem to apply to postfix emails as emails were rejected once the quota was reached.

Sat, 08/15/2009 - 23:24
andreychek

Hmm, what Virtualmin version are you using?

-Eric

Sun, 08/16/2009 - 00:03
jstapels

I'm using Virtualmin 3.72.gpl.

My menu looks like...

Limits and Validation
- Check Disk Quotas
- Validate Virtual Servers
- FTP Directory Restrictions

Sun, 08/16/2009 - 00:05
andreychek

Indeed, you're pretty up to date!

Sorry, it sounds like that may be a Pro feature then.

-Eric

Sun, 08/16/2009 - 00:10
jstapels

Fair 'nuff.

Thanks for the help :).

Mon, 05/16/2011 - 03:35
Murz

jstapels, you can configure sending quota warnings for all users via webmin module - Webmin > System > Disk Quotas > select disk > Email notifications Mail Templates are in module config.

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