From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 22:28:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E8016A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:28:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from iron.allciti.net (iron.allciti.net [66.36.240.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B55443D39 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:28:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonaadam@nsu.nova.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iron.allciti.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AE733C0E; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:29:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from iron.allciti.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iron.allciti.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10316-06; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:29:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (firewall.allciti.net [69.17.104.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by iron.allciti.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C33133C0D; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:29:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4212777D.3050605@nsu.nova.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:28:13 -0500 From: Jon Adams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: rs1_4f1c29d98c6, rs2_246f19c3bce, rs3_81d0880ece MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Dover References: <42127040.2050703@nsu.nova.edu> <5ae9cd5505021514147f701f22@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5ae9cd5505021514147f701f22@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at iron.allciti.net cc: Jon Adams cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Quota Questions 5.3 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:28:41 -0000 Benjamin Dover wrote: >Take a look at this section of the handbook >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html > > Yes, I've read this and am aware of the process of recompiling the kernel to implement quotas (done it before). What I am looking for is an alternative to recompiling the kernel due to the cripppled box I have. >Its not left out its just not an standard option. Compiling a kernel >is not a difficult task. It sounds more difficult than it really is. > > I agree... I have FreeBSD 5.3 and a 5.1 box I have lazily not yet updated on a pair of poweredges in my apt, I rebuilt the 5.3 kernel a couple of time when I was experimenting with trying to install Oracle 8i on it (before giving up in frustration due to the Oracle make files exiting emulation) Thanks for the tip on sysinstall... D'oh