THE VIRTUAL SERVER HANDBOOK

Grace

The grace period is a time allowed for being over quota before

a hard limit is reached. The grace period is 7 days. You can go

over quota and still continue to function as long as you do not

go over quota by 10% or more or for over 7 days.

Files

Your quota is also controlled by the number of files you have

and the amount of disk space. The limit on the number of files

can be increased without a charge. We currently give you 200

files per meg (275*200=55000). The files limit has a 

quota

and 

grace

 which function just like the disk space quota.

Note:  When you are over the quota you need to take action before the

limit is reached. When the limit is reached, any program that creates or

appends to files does not function.

Exceeding Quotas because of Logs

The server maintains log files for E mail, FTP and the World Wide Web.

The logs grow rapidly on an active server. To avoid going over the limit due

to log files, set up a CRON file that E mails the needed logs to you and then

nukes the logs when finished. See Managing with Cron, later in this

chapter.

To remove log files

At the command prompt, enter the command 

vnl  r

. This action

removes the following files:

~/usr/log/messages (this is the log file for E mail, ftp and logins)

~/www/logs/error_log

~/www/logs/access_log

~/www/logs/referer_log

To remove subhost log files

At the command prompt, enter the command 

vnl  d

, where ServerName is the name specified in the

VirtualHost directive ServerName for the subhost you wish to delete

the logs for.  This action removes the log files defined for the specified

subhost.

Handling Subhost Quotas

The command used to maintain logs for subhosts is called 

vnl

. The

command reads the World Wide Web 

httpd.conf

 file, checks for

subhosts with log files, and lists the log files. You can then choose which

log files to delete with vnl.

To view your disk usage

While at a command prompt:

% cd

% vdiskuse | more

Note:  vdiskuse lists the directory and file usage from your current

directory.

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