From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 7 20:53:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24132 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [198.232.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24122 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.list@bug.tasam.com) Received: from bug (bug.tasam.com [198.232.144.254]) by tasam.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA00366 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:53:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001101bdc280$14be9a40$0171a1ce@bug.tasam.com> From: "Joe Gleason" To: Subject: Quota bug crashing system? Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 23:53:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I run a shell server and I suspect that some of my recent crashes have been due to a problem with quotas. When I was running 2.2.2 I had a strange problem with quotas. Whenever I had files owned by uid's of users that were no longer on the system, the size of my quota.user file became very strange. It would on occasion be reported as being greater than the total size of the drive itself. I found that when I checked for and removed unowned files, this problem did not occer. Now under 2.2.6, I thought the problem was fixed so I removed some of my work around scripting. It seems that instead of having strange sizes of my quota.user file, my system would randomly crash. When it does these crashes, it makes no comment in my /var/log/messages to give me any hint as to the cause. After I removed the owned files, this no longer seems to be happening. If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know. Joe Gleason Tasam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message