How To Install quota-warnquota on CentOS 8

quota-warnquota is Send e-mail to users over quota

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-warnquota on CentOS 8.

What is quota-warnquota

Utility that checks disk quota for each local file system and mails a warning message to those users who have reached their soft limit. It is typically run via cron(8).

We can use yum or dnf to install quota-warnquota on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota-warnquota.

Install quota-warnquota 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-warnquota using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quota-warnquota

Install quota-warnquota 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-warnquota using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quota-warnquota

How To Uninstall quota-warnquota on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the quota-warnquota package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove quota-warnquota

quota-warnquota Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/quotagrpadmins
/etc/quotatab
/etc/warnquota.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/0c168544df8452b84be0cb1a425da32a5071de
/usr/sbin/warnquota
/usr/share/doc/quota-warnquota
/usr/share/doc/quota-warnquota/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/quota-warnquota/README.ldap-support
/usr/share/doc/quota-warnquota/README.mailserver
/usr/share/man/man5/quotagrpadmins.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/quotatab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/warnquota.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/warnquota.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-warnquota on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.