[SunHELP] Repost: quotacheck problem

[Tom Lieuallen]

> I guess I should assume that by no response on my first message, nobody has 
> any ideas...  But I'll send again just in case it fell through the cracks 
> last week.
 
I had a problem very similar to this a while back.  We were running
quotacheck in a nightly script, just for good measure.  I opened a
call with sun and among other things, learned that running quotacheck
on a mounted file system is bad charma.  My guess is that it is okay
most of the time, but you might get bitten once in a while.

I stopped doing it, have installed multiple patches since then,
and eventually replaced our Solaris 8 E450 with a SF 280 (for other
reasons).  No more hangs.  Sun finally had a beta patch that they
wanted me to test.  However, I just don't have the same environment
anymore, so it wouldn't be much of a test.  Plus, I hate to rock
the boat...  :-)  

I don't think you need to run quotacheck when you add a user, especially
if you setup the quota before they write files.  The only case where
quotacheck might help is if the user writes files, then you apply a
quota afterwards.

I'll mail you separately and see if the Sun Engineer would like you to
test his patch.  If they haven't tossed it already.  :-(

good luck

Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University
 
> At 04:02 PM 9/17/2001 -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
> >I've got a Sun 450 Enterprise runnning Solaris 8 setup as our mail server 
> >here.
> >
> >I've got 10MB quotas on mailboxes in /var/mail.
> >
> >When I add a user, I am under the impression that I need to run the 
> >quotacheck command.
> >
> >I've never had a problem running quotacheck -av
> >Every once in a while I seem to hang the machine running quotacheck -a
> >When the system is hung, I can't telnet/SSH into the box.  I can't check 
> >email via a POP3 client.  I can't even log in at the console.  Not even 
> >Stop+A works.  I end up cutting power and turning the machine back up.
> >
> >Any known problems with the quotacheck command?
> 
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