[SunHELP] Repost: quotacheck problem

Edward Chase sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Sep 18 13:02:41 CDT 2001


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.


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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