[17413] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.23: quota
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Mon Dec 6 10:11:08 1999
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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:52:17 -0500
To: Hyunna Song <songh@mit.edu>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199912060416.XAA12784@sci-read-room.mit.edu>
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Hi. I think you may have been using "rmm" instead of "rm".
May I suggest that you use delete and expunge instead of rm? These are
described at http://web.mit.edu/answers/unix/unix_delete.html
I also suggest that you use OLC to discuss how to take care of your account.
Sending email when you are over quota makes it a bit hard for us to reply.
Hope this helps
Mike
At 11:16 PM 12/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>System name: sci-read-room.mit.edu
>Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.3.23
>Display type: m
>
>Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
>Window manager: mwm
>
>What were you trying to do
>I was trying to delete my files since my disk quota was exceeded and I could not check my emails since last Sat. because of that.
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
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>What's wrong:
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>I checked online Help on Athena and found out the names of directories that are taking most of my quota. THen I typed rm file name in order to remove those files.However, it kept showing " bad message list filename."
>What should have happened:
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>Isn't it supposed to be removing my file? It is the first time I am doing this to maintain below the quota, so I don't know what was supposed to be showing.
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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>The files that I was trying to erase permanently were AdobeFnt.1st, netscape, webcache, public_html, windu, falsh_solaris.tar.gz
