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- From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: setting disk quotas
- Message-ID: <9211112316.AA01657@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 21:45:28 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
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- Does anyone know how to modify disk quotas froM a program? I can't
- see any reference to anything like it in the system services or RTL,
- and we would like to be able to do it so that non privileged users
- could modify their quota within reason
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- This is handled through what is known as the "ACP-QIO Interface", documented
- in the I/O User's Reference Manual. Most of the functions of that interface
- have to do with file access, but at the end is a section on "ACP control"
- functions, one (group) of which controls disk quotas.
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- The whole ACP-QIO interface is notoriously difficult to use - where RMS
- provides a way to get the job done, it's usually easier to use RMS, no simple
- interface itself! In this case, you have to do the ACP calls directly.
- Take heart: It's complicated and has a lot of pieces, but there's nothing
- inherently difficult about it. (Kind of like plumbing: Each of the indivi-
- dual steps requires, at worst, some strength; the difficulty is in the number
- of such steps you have to get right to finish the job.)
-
- -- Jerry
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