ok, i have an account at liquidweb.com and they allow 50 FTP account (thats alot for 500 megs)

is there anyway by telnet to set how much each FTP account gets in space??

there _is_ a way to limit how much disk space an account can
use, but the command can be issued by root only. When you telnet to your account type this:
man quota
This will explain the quota command to you.

You have 2 options:
1) Discuss the matter with the administrators (recommended)
2) Setup a cron script to check each account's directory for
excessive usage and delete the excess periodically (every hour, or 2 hours or so). This is possible but I would recommend you start with option 1 by talking to your admin.

i have, no luck

i have cron jobs set up, how would i go about 2?

i have root access to my server so i will try man quota

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