From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 30 13:56:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22582 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:56:21 -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 NAA22492 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:56:11 -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 QAA14601; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:56:45 -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: > > 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