Quota checks for mailbox disk quota and usage question

Gino Viroli

• January 27, 2019 13:47

In order to run the process that checks mail quota and sends warnings I can call from Terminal this command: /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/quotacheck But if I don't call it, how many times per day/hour cPanel checks the user mail quota and sends a mail warning? Let's suppose /var/cpanel/quotawarned is still empty I need to know because I'm doing some tests, it seems it's not sending these type of warnings unless I call /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/quotacheck manually, even if in the Tweak Settings I have turned on "Enable mailbox usage warnings" and "Mailbox disk quota "critical" percentage" set to 90% EDIT: in thread title there is a misspelling, it should be "checks", but I can't fix it.

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  rpvw

  • January 27, 2019 20:09

  I believe that quotacheck is called once a day as part of the upcp routine

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  Gino Viroli

  • January 28, 2019 15:52

  I believe that quotacheck is called once a day as part of the upcp routine

  
  Ouch, if that is true, it's quite annoying, because I set cPanel to update itself once a month, hence my upcp runs once a month. o_O It seems you are right, I looked into /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/upcp ... ...and it calls /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/maintenance script... ...that calls /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/quotacheck :mad:

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  cPanelLauren

  • January 29, 2019 20:04

  Hello, cPanel by default does not do a "monthly" update it performs an automated maintenance update nightly. quotacheck is run as part of the maintenance script. I would absolutely not suggest manipulating the upcp cron, if you don't want cPanel to update regularly I'd modify the setting in WHM>>Server Configuration>>Update preferences though an automated "monthly" update is not something that is available.

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  Gino Viroli

  • February 01, 2019 11:13

  Hello, cPanel by default does not do a "monthly" update it performs an automated maintenance update nightly. quotacheck is run as part of the maintenance script. I would absolutely not suggest manipulating the upcp cron, if you don't want cPanel to update regularly I'd modify the setting in WHM>>Server Configuration>>Update preferences though an automated "monthly" update is not something that is available.

  
  I have got it now. :-p

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  Gino Viroli

  • February 18, 2019 12:02

  I turned on the upcp cron job, now it runs every night. Is there a way to get upcp cron stop sending the Cron Daemon mail message every night?

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  cPanelLauren

  • February 18, 2019 17:55

  Hello, You can set that cron job to send to /dev/null so you stop getting the notification just append the following to the end like following: > /dev/null 2>&1
  

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