How can a process ignore disk quotas?

From: Gernot Salzer <salzer_at_logic.at>
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 18:30:20 +0200

Hello,

I'm running DU4.0d, patchkit #3.

Some time ago I set up disk quotas to prevent a single user of filling the
hard disk. Nevertheless, a few minutes ago an ordinary user process succeeded
in doing exactly that, resulting in the following quotas:

Disk quotas for user xxx (uid 340):
     Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
           /var 3 20000 30000 1 0 0
          /home 258057* 20000 30000 none 50 0 0

Why is the process not stopped when hitting the hard limit of 30MB,
but is allowed to generate a log file of 258MB?
What do I have to do to prevent such things in the future?

Thanks for any hints,
   Gernot
Received on Fri May 07 1999 - 16:33:04 NZST