[BlueOnyx:03536] Re: admin user quota error with ftp

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Bret,

> I am getting a quota exceeded error in /var/log/secure when the admin user
> tries to upload via ftp to a vhost directory.  I can use winscp and the ftp
> works if I turn off quotas (quotaoff /home ) but the server owner maintains
> more than half the sites on the box and the developers used the admin user
> to upload when they were on the old bluequartz box and they would like to
> keep it that way on this blueonyx one. 
>
>  I cannot find anywhere that the quota is set for the admin user.

Like Chris said: Turning off quota for /home is a bad idea. It breaks all 
kinds of things and has ill side effects. The longer you have it off, the 
worse it'll get and the harder it'll be to ever sort the quota out again.

User "admin" has unlimited quota. So he can indeed own as many files and 
consume as much space as you've got available.

However: You WILL get over quota warnings if the site you upload to as "admin" 
is running out of quota. This is to make sure that even "admin" cannot 
"overstuff" a site with data. Because if he does, then email to users of that 
site will bounce as the users cannot receive any more mails due to the site 
itself being over quota.

So if you get an over quota warning while uploading files as "admin", then the 
correct fix is to go to the site in question in the GUI and to increase that 
sites disk quota.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber