Disk Quotas and PHP3

My network allows each user to access his/her own home directory in the server, and I limit the disk usage with the Linux Disk Quota System... but the Windows 9x and NT does not recognize the quota format and tells the client that he/she have xxx bytes free where this is the total free, not his/her quota usage... and I can access the user quota usage by repquota -u <user> command....

What I want to know is if is possible to read the user quota and display it in a dynamic web page compiled with php3, so my users can any time refresh and view his / her disk usage and so on....

any information is valid ! I would thank you... and apologize for my english... URL

thanks again

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See ya,

Marcus Laranjeira
São Paulo - SP - Brazil

Linux User #101315

I haven't tried this, but it sounds like you should be able to make it work somehow.

Check out the PHP docs on system():

www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Manual/manfiles/function.system.html

Good luck.

I was thinking of using system or exec function, but either system or exec returns no data and the system logs register
this message : "/home/quota.user: Permission denied"... so, I still can't access quota information because I am not the super user... none php3 use super user to access the system.... What else I could try !?


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See ya,

Marcus Laranjeira
São Paulo - SP - Brazil

Linux User #101315

Hi,
What about this:
- write little shell-script which calls repquota and pipes output into textfile;
- place script into crontab; dependent on usage-level of system - call it every half hour or more often;
- write PHP-Script that read textfile.

Not the best solution, not in-time values, and you should add some locking-mechanism due to file access; but I think, it'll do the job URL

If you have further questions - send me an email.

Ciao,
Alexander.

Might try using a setuid wrapper? I have never tried it via PHP, but I use them all the time to post new page text via email...