How To Install quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8.
What is quota-nld
Daemon that listens on netlink socket and processes received quota warnings. Note, that you have to enable the kernel support for sending quota messages over netlink (in Filesystems->Quota menu). The daemon supports forwarding warning messages to the system D-Bus (so that desktop manager can display a dialog) and writing them to the terminal user has last accessed.
We can use yum or dnf to install quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota-nld.
Install quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install quota-nld using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install quota-nld
Install quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install quota-nld using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quota-nld
How To Uninstall quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the quota-nld package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quota-nld
quota-nld Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/sysconfig/quota_nld
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/cf36b747a610f82f95fb5e775a22a1c1f936aa
/usr/lib/systemd/system/quota_nld.service
/usr/sbin/quota_nld
/usr/share/doc/quota-nld
/usr/share/doc/quota-nld/Changelog
/usr/share/man/man8/quota_nld.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
