Quota / Diskless Workstation?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:57 -0400, David Frascone wrote:
> I have a couple of diskless machines that I boot off of one server.
> Today, one of them mis-behaved, and dropped a huge log file, filling
> my server's disk. 
> 
> I want to prevent this in the future.  So, I'm looking for
> suggestions.

You could configure against allowing any core dumping, if you want to.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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