From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 22 15:24:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27032 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27023 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.6.12/1.2) id PAA09979; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:50:16 -0700 From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199601222250.PAA09979@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: 2.1 acctng/quotas To: mpp@mpp.minn.net (Mike Pritchard) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:50:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199601220954.DAA16070@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jan 22, 96 03:54:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greetings! > Chris Coleman wrote: > > > > I have tried to get Quotas working with no real success. > > It says they are working, ie i have no error messages, > > but it doesn't seem to do anything. (yes, i enables option QUOTA > > in the kernel) > > Up until a could of weeks ago I did have quotas enabled on my machine, > and they seemed to work just fine. You need to enable them > in /etc/sysconfig, and your kernel config file. Then run edquota > to set some limits on some people. However, I turned quotas back > off because some recent changes started causing lots of quota > related panics and decided to back off for now. I think if you are > running 2.1-release or 2.1-stable you should be fine. Hmm... they were running quite nicely in 1.1.5.1R. Should I assume something broke in -current but -release is OK? I wonder why the commentary in /etc/sysconfig claiming that quotas (and accounting) don't work?? > > However, accounting seems to work as far as i understand it. > > I can check how much time each user has been on the machine. > > I've also had accounting enabled for the last 6 months without > any problems. Hmmm... again, I wonder why the commentary in sysconfig? (I sure wish people would *substantiate* comments like that when they commit them! :-( Well, I guess I'll turn things on a bit at a time and log any problems I encounter. Thanx for your input! --don