From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 30 13:41:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18879 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18854 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:41:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from druber@mail.kersur.net) Received: from localhost (druber@localhost) by mail.kersur.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13851; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:41:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:41:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Swartzendruber To: "Matthew N. Dodd" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quota panics In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > > My SOP when doing anything related to quotas being turned off or on was to > > > do it from single user and reboot b/t state changes. Once the box was up > > > the quotas were either off or on. > > > > Ick. This is less than useful on a production machine :( > > Schedule reboots. Depends on what the operation is. If the admins can do setquota on new or existing users with quotas on, it's much less of an issue for me. > I've been using quotas on various incarnations of the following machine > since 2.0.5 Until fairly recently, quotas were useless for our web/mail servers, since they didn't work properly for setuid programs. This has been fixed at some point in the last year or so (dunno exactly when, since my PR was never specifically addressed). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message