Maximum allowable storage for a certain directory?

ianskate · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

Hi, I'm trying to set up a few virtually hosted sites for friends, running on subdomains of my site, and I was wondering if there was a way to somehow limit the maximum total storage for the directory that belongs to them, so they don't fill up the drive with crap.

I don't know where to start... I don't think it's possible to do anything with the FTP, because that deals with the uploads at the time, not the total storage in there home directory. Is this true? Am I totally lost here?

I'm using Apache, and Pureftp, so if anything can be changed with those, it'll help. Also, I've already set up virtual user accounts, and everything is working, I just need to try and limit the directory they own.

Thanks for any help.

rmalolepszy · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 167

You can do this in two ways.

Enable quota's in the kernel and set em up.

or via pure-ftpd

ianskate · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

Cool, I'll try the Pureftp option first, and let you know if it works.
(Seems much easier at the moment)

Thanks

ianskate · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

Ok, it doesn't seem to have an effect. I used usermod, to add that one setting, and I put it really low to test it. Am I supposed to put in everything about the user (the same way as creating it) when i modify?

pure-pw usermod username -N 1 (did nothing)

updated the database (even if I didn't need to):
pure-pw mkdb /etc/pureftp.pdb -f /etc/pureftpd.passwd

Edit: Nevermind, I got it to work by restarting pure-ftp. I really never thought that it needed a restart when dealing with accounts, but I guess it did, because that made it work.