Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:56:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Swartzendruber <druber@mail.kersur.net> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quota panics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980930165404.13863A-100000@mail.kersur.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809301642260.16487-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > 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. > > Why would setquota not work when quotas are on? I was told that might account for the panic I saw. Granted I only saw it after turning off quotas, turning them back on, and then doing a bunch of setquota's... > > 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). > > Interesting. I do remember the PR. Yeah. It made quotas for /var/mail totally useless :( Over the last few months, we've migrated upward to 2.2.6-STABLE and then 2.2.7-STABLE, and I took another look at the code and saw major changes, so I tried re-enabling them, and it worked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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