How To Install quota-nld on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld on CentOS 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 CentOS 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 CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the quota-nld package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quota-nld
quota-nld Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/quota_nld
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/1dca717b2a47cd7921a1686dc52158b7bf00c7
/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.