From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 14 5:37:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99EA837B505 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 05:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 7308 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Apr 2001 09:49:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:49:37 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Matt Simerson Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Quota reporting is inaccurate. Message-ID: <20010414124937.C5504@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Simerson , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" References: <8D18712B2604D411A6BB009027F6449801B4B5BF@0SEA01EXSRV1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <8D18712B2604D411A6BB009027F6449801B4B5BF@0SEA01EXSRV1>; from mpsimerson@hostpro.com on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:48:28PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:48:28PM -0600, Matt Simerson wrote: > > Another thought is that this user may have had files still open. Even > > if you "remove" a file, it really does not go away until the last open > > handle is closed. > > That seems like the most likely possibility. However, only one daemon can > add or delete files and that's FreeBSD's built in FTP daemon. If the deamon > isn't running (and it wasn't) then the file shouldn't be open (in theory). I > just installed lsof and we'll see if that doesn't reveal anything next time > I see this crop up. If the streaming is done by something other than the FTP daemon, then the file *can* still be open, if someone was listening to it at the time the user deleted it via FTP. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message