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BooBoo
06-20-2002, 02:06 PM
I have started getting this email to the admin account and it has appeared for the last couple of days. What is going on and is it something that I need to worry about or need to fix?
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 04:02:02 -0700 From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <root@www> run-parts /etc/cron.daily All headers

Invalid argument to '-q' (soft limit): 8000M Group default does not exist User default does not exist Invalid argument to '-q' (soft limit): 4000M Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 409600 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 409600 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 512000 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 512000 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting soft limit for (null): 204800 blocks Setting hard limit for admin: 0 blocks Setting soft limit for admin: 0 blocks Setting hard limit for mitcha: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for mitcha: 102400 blocks Setting hard limit for camcordersb: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for camcordersb: 102400 blocks Setting hard limit for toshibaa: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for toshibaa: 102400 blocks Setting hard limit for laptops: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for laptops: 102400 blocks Setting hard limit for applelb: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for applelb: 102400 blocks Setting hard limit for batteryr: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for batteryr: 102400 blocks Setting hard limit for toshibakb: 102400 blocks Setting soft limit for toshibak

blacknight
06-20-2002, 02:12 PM
It doesn't make much sense to me. Have you checked your diskspace on the main partition?

BooBoo
06-20-2002, 06:28 PM
I forgot that I installed the quota tool on this server to test it. I did not realize that it would do this everyday and send out an email. It appears to be checking and resetting quotas.