How To Install quota-nld.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is quota-nld.x86_64
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 to install quota-nld.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota-nld.x86_64.
Install quota-nld.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install quota-nld.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quota-nld.x86_64
How To Uninstall quota-nld.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the quota-nld.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove quota-nld.x86_64
quota-nld.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/sysconfig/quota_nld
/usr/lib/systemd/system/quota_nld.service
/usr/sbin/quota_nld
/usr/share/doc/quota-nld-4.01
/usr/share/doc/quota-nld-4.01/Changelog
/usr/share/man/man8/quota_nld.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.