cPanel NFS quota emulator

The two files contained in this packages are drop-in replacements for /usr/local/cpanel/bin/quota and /usr/local/cpanel/bin/safe_fetch_repquota. It reports quota to cPanel so that you get warning emails and information back to WHM accounts list and to the cPanel account sidebar. However, it won't enforce quotas, ie. users can go overquota.

You still need quota binaries installed, and quota-reporting support for NFS mounts. You also need PHP installed because I don't know Perl.

It has been tested on WHM/cPanel 11.38.2.

Will it work for me?

Possibly, it hasn't been thoroughly tested. Try quota -vw julien. If you get an output like the one below, chances are high it will work :)

Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days
                        Block limits                File limits
User            used    soft    hard  grace    used  soft  hard  grace
10.x.y.z:/nfs-server/home 6989867       0       0               0       0       0        

Installation

Just run the following commands as root:

1. cd /usr/local/cpanel/bin/
2. mv quota quota.bak
3. wget https://raw.github.com/cahri/cpanel-nfs-quota/master/quota
4. chmod 755 quota
5. mv safe_fetch_repquota safe_fetch_repquota.bak
6. wget https://raw.github.com/cahri/cpanel-nfs-quota/master/safe_fetch_repquota
7. chmod 755 safe_fetch_repquota

Version history

• 1.0.1: removed dependency on POSIX libary
• 1.0.0: initial release

Known limitations

It doesn't work if your NFS server does not report quotas. Feel free to improve the script to use du in such a case (with some caching involved since it's resource-intensive).

Obviously, WHM/cPanel updates might break this script or overwrite it.

Credits

Concept and development by Julien Tessier for Cahri.