[5528] in Release_7.7_team
FWD: quota warning prominence
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (oliver thomas)
Thu Jul 13 13:40:16 2006
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The below came into suggest[4445] and was discussed at Owls on
7/10/2006. It seems like a reasonable request for a useful
enhancement. The suggestion is to have a more prominent "close to quota"
warning as part of the Athena release/login process, perhaps via a dialog
box, since the console warning is not very visible and easily scrolls off
the console window.
We decided to forward this to to release team to determine whether such a
thing could be easily implemented and what the resource requirements might
be.
Thanks,
Oliver
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[4445] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (You (Yoyo) Zhou) Athena Software Suggestions 09/
13/05 15:11 (24 lines)
Subject: quota warning prominence
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "You (Yoyo) Zhou" <yoz@mit.edu>
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The warning users get when they log in and are over 90% of quota appears
in the console. When it's an X login, the console quickly fills up and the
warning scrolls away. This is poor, because often, the user is unaware
of being over quota, and support groups like OLC and SIPB have to discover
that from the various and mysterious side effects (generally, errors).
It would be nice if (especially when they are *over quota*) they are
notified somewhat more prominently, perhaps with a nice dialog box that
interrupts the normal login just as a "check your email" session does,
perhaps with an aside, "You will be unable to use Athena normally while
you are over quota. You can use 'athrun consult helpquota' to help fix
this problem."
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Yoyo Zhou
Athena Consultant
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