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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ryan Taylor <rjtaylor@ncia.net>
To:        Jeremy Buckner <jeremy@cableaz.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Quotas
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107111959010.9651-100000@wolf.ncia.net>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c10a64$a903f220$1396f13f@caz>

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jeremy Buckner wrote:

> I am building a new mail server for my Internet customers
> and I am running into some trouble with enabling quotas. I
> have done this once before on another machine and everything
> worked fine. Here's my problem:
>
> After building and installing the new kernel with the quota
> option, I edit my fstab and my rc.conf file to the
> appropriate settings (according to the handbook). The
> handbook then says to reboot the machine and that /etc/rc
> runs the proper commands to create user.quota and
> group.quota.
>
> When I do this it appears as though /etc/rc is not creating
> these two files. I am setting up quotas on my /usr. when the
> machine boots I get the following: Enabling Quotas :
> QUOTAON: /usr/user.config , file does not exist. and of
> course I get the same for group.quota. In other words, it
> thinks that they should be there already?
>
> I have reloaded (re-installed) the machine several times and
> I get the same error. I am at a loss.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy
>

I think you'll need to touch those two files first to create them.  IIRC
you should also chmod 600 them too.


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Ryan J. Taylor
Systems/Network Administrator
NCIA
rj@ncia.net


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