"Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks Paul,
>
> When you say that quota support is compiled in, are you talking about RH
> 6.2? If so, someone should tell HOWTOQuotas.txt that it's wrong and that
> RH6.2 does have quota support built into kernel.
6.2 does not have quota support built in.
> I'm running "quotacheck -avug" now (takes ages I know). Do I ALWAYS need to
> do "quotacheck -avug" on system startup as it seems to take around 20 mins
> which means a lot of hanging around when waiting for system to boot!
No. You only do it once. RTFM
> I'll report back once I've finished. Cheers,
>
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> Ben Kennish
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pau Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: priv_*
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I originally posted this last week for Ben, but sent it from the wrong
> > address. I thought it still might help some people out.
> >
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Do you have quotas set up properly? I was getting similar results. Last
> > week, I posted a message that no one responded to regarding some quirky
> > issues with vsdadm, WebAdmin, and VSDClient. I had notice problems with
> > Virtual Servers that had more than 12 users. I know it sounded nuts and
> > everyone must of thought I had lost my mind. I was starting to think the
> > same thing. When I would run some of the priv_* and quota_* commands vsd
> > would hang and eventually produce a Read timeout error. When I ran
> > quotastats from a VS with few users it spit out 0K for everything accept
> > the total usage on the bottom. On the VS with more users, quotastats spit
> > out 0K for everyone but admin and mail who were set at about 1320k. In
> > addition, quotastats would crash with a Segmentation fault after the
> > output. I tried to use setquota to remove the quota, but it wouldn't work.
> >
> > I started thinking that the problem may not have anything to do with the
> > number of users and it was a quota problem. After doing some research on
> > quota I determined that it was compiled in the kernel, but it was not
> > enabled in /etc/fstab for any filesystems. Following the directions in the
> > FreeVSD Quota HOWTO, I modified the fstab, and rc.sysinit and ran
> > quotacheck and quotaon. Everything works, (well for the most part). I
> don't
> > get The errors or timeouts now.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > At 02:52 AM 4/6/01, Ben Kennish wrote:
> > >Currently having problems with vsdadm and the priv_ commands.
> > >
> > >e.g. when I do...
> > >
> > >'vsdadm priv_avail localhost vsone'
> > >
> > >I just wait and wait nothing happens and so I press CTRL-C. Same thing
> with
> > >"priv_list"
> > >
> > >Trying priv_modify with the following...
> > >
> > >`vsdadm priv_modify localhost vsone admin +mail` gives unknown user vsone
> > >which is weird considering the syntax is listed as...
> > >`vsdadm priv_modify <host svr> <vs> <user> <+�- priv>`
> > >
> > >
> > >Any ideas as to what might be causing this one?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >----
> > >Ben Kennish
> > >
> > >Software Engineer
> > >Fubra Limited
> > >
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> >