[thelist] Alerted when user reaches soft limit on server

[Alexander Beston]

> Could you clarify a couple things: what is a "soft limit", 

this is a quota issue. for a user, there are hard limits and soft 
limits. if the quota has been reached ie the "hard limit" then the user 
gets no more usage of his account. the soft limit is there to let him / 
her know that the user space is growing is size.

> how do you "reach" it,

by uploading bytes and increasing access / error logs

> and what kind of server


 a linux box. i dont really get involved in windows tech other than for 
client side tuff.

anyway, one idea was to parse out the result of a repquota and send a 
mail based on the findings. but there might be other well known 
techniques, hence the origin of the thread.

Alex :)