Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:55:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> Cc: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP!: page fault (revisited) Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.92.960416105342.18062C-100000@dingo.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.92.960416085311.24505A-100000@alpha.dsu.edu>
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Guy Helmer wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Charles Owens wrote:
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > I'm still having trouble with page faults, and it seems to occur when I
> > create users.
> >
> > Some more background:
> > I set up a msqld database to contain user info. User's fill in a Web form
> > account application that dumps into the database. An operator can then
> > pull up the application data (using a different Web interface) and process
> > it if desired. The whole thing is built using Apache, mSQL and perl
> > scripts. (The mSQL database engine itself is running on a separate
> > FreeBSD box which doesn't ever crash.) The actual unix account creation
> > is handled by a hacked version of the stock adduser perl script.
> >
> > The modified adduser (I call it ypadduser) works with NIS and the quota
> > system. This is what it does:
> > Add new user entry to /var/yp/master.passwd
> > from /var/yp - make -DNOPUSH
> > create new user directory, etc.
> > quotaoff -a
> > edquota -Pprotouser -u newuser
> > quoton -a
> >
> > After last user is created:
> > from /var/yp - make (pushing to NIS sub servers)
> > quotaoff -a
> > quotacheck -a
> > quoton -a
>
> I don't understand the need to do "quotaoff -a" before the edquota and
> "quotaon -a" after the edquota when adding a user, nor anything with
> quotas after the NIS make. As someone else stated, the quota code is
> shaky; perhaps turning quotas off and on triggers some bugs.
I started doing this based on a recommendation that someone (I believe it
was Terry Lambert) made a while back. Maybe I should try not turning it
on and off...
Thanks,
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