samba - Feb 2005 - Ghost logons / Recycle Bin Options (related)

Hi all. Long time no write :)

Have been looking at recycle bin options using the VFS options.

Everything works fine, but I have one question/snag.

We use a script that uses smbclient to send a message to a machine to warn
them they are low on space.

So the user thinks "oh dear" and deletes stuff. Problem is on the
quota
system its still counted as part of their user space... Is there anywhere
you can set the user it copies it to? i.e change the owner on the fly to
root?

Currently it copies to .recycle (which by default they cant see) problem is
also some students are deleting work and blaming it on the system... And its
not in the recycle bin. If the user was changed they couldn't do this :)
Have thought about running a script on everyones .recycle bin, but decided
against that :)

Also as part of the script that sends messages to people, since upgrading to
version 3.05 +, ive noticed "ghost logons"

That is to say when I do a smbstatus, there is more than one person logged
onto that machine. They get the ghost users space warning, and then come to
us. We check their quota and its fine, but they will still get the message
15 mins later. The only way I can clear this is to either kill the PID, or
reboot the machine. Any ideas on either would be great :)



Cheers

Ross

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Hi, maybe you should empty the recycle folder via find script periodic
by cron
like this

#!/bin/bash
#will delete all files older 7 days in all homes .recycle and its subfolders
find /home/*/.recycle/ -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm "{}" ";"

also make sure not needed stuff isnt store to the recycle bin
like this
[files3]
~        comment = public files
~        path = /files3
~        read only = No
~        guest ok = Yes
~        browseable = Yes
~        csc policy = disable
~        vfs objects = netatalk, extd_audit, recycle
~        recycle:keeptree = yes
~        recycle:versions = yes
~        recycle:touch = yes
~        recycle:exclude = ?~$*,~$*,*.tmp,index*.pl,index*.htm*,*.temp,*.TMP
~        recycle:exclude_dir=  /tmp,/temp,/cache
~        recycle:repository = .recycle/.recycle.%u
~        recycle:noversions = *.doc,*.xls,*.ppt
~        #hide files = /.recycle.*/.recycle/
~        #veto files = /.recycle.*/.recycle/


Regards

sysrm schrieb:
| Hi all. Long time no write :)
|
| Have been looking at recycle bin options using the VFS options.
|
| Everything works fine, but I have one question/snag.
|
| We use a script that uses smbclient to send a message to a machine to warn
| them they are low on space.
|
| So the user thinks "oh dear" and deletes stuff. Problem is on the
quota
| system its still counted as part of their user space... Is there anywhere
| you can set the user it copies it to? i.e change the owner on the fly to
| root?
|
| Currently it copies to .recycle (which by default they cant see)
problem is
| also some students are deleting work and blaming it on the system...
And its
| not in the recycle bin. If the user was changed they couldn't do this :)
| Have thought about running a script on everyones .recycle bin, but decided
| against that :)
|
| Also as part of the script that sends messages to people, since
upgrading to
| version 3.05 +, ive noticed "ghost logons"
|
| That is to say when I do a smbstatus, there is more than one person logged
| onto that machine. They get the ghost users space warning, and then
come to
| us. We check their quota and its fine, but they will still get the message
| 15 mins later. The only way I can clear this is to either kill the PID, or
| reboot the machine. Any ideas on either would be great :)
|
|
|
| Cheers
|
| Ross
|

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Best Regards
Robert Schetterer

robert_at_schetterer.org
Munich / Bavaria / Germany
https://www.schetterer.org

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> Currently it copies to .recycle (which by default they cant see) problem is
> also some students are deleting work and blaming it on the system... And
its
> not in the recycle bin. If the user was changed they couldn't do this
:)
> Have thought about running a script on everyones .recycle bin, but decided
> against that :)
We have a volume /var/pcnet/trash.  We have the recycle VFS place all
trash in this volume (/var/pcnet/trash/%U).  So it isn't within the
quotaed area (home directories, whatever...).   Since the recycle bin
seems to be relative to the root of the share we create a .trash
sym-link to /var/pcnet/trash and have samba veto the file so the user
can't see it.  Then we have a "trash" share with a root
of /var/pcnet/trash that only administrators can access.