How To Install quota-nld on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld in Fedora 36. quota-nld is quota_nld daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-nld on Fedora 36.

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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota-nld.

Install quota-nld on Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove quota-nld

quota-nld Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/sysconfig/quota_nld
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/5ba9e9427edaf57a66dd0be1edf99f8bc9ed34
/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 Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).