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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: quotactl issues
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John Baldwin wrote:
> > Note the warnx() call.  It writes directly to the quota file so you can
> > set quotas even if your current kernel is not capable of enforcing
> > them.  Is your kernel compiled with "options QUOTA"?  I can tell you on
> > all my 4.* systems (4.0 through 4.5) edquota calls quotactl and it
> > succeeds:
> >
> >  90883 edquota  CALL  quotactl(0x8057828,0x40000,0x3e8,0x8057808)
> >  90883 edquota  NAMI  "/usr"
> >  90883 edquota  RET   quotactl 0
> 
> He didn't get EOPNOTSUPP, he got EINVAL.  Perhaps it is a bug in edquota
> to edit the quota file directly for an errno other than EOPNOTSUPP?

"edquota" tries to do for quotas what vipw does for password
entries.

The file you edit is not the real "quota file", but a temp copy.

For all practical purposes, you don't modify a quota until you
have issued a successful "quotactl" call to set the new quota
(or delete it).

What's happening is expected: it's just like pwd_mkdb failing
after editing the password file with vipw.

-- Terry

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