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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 12:44:22 -0600
From: Matt Rosenberg <matt@server.wulaw.wustl.edu>
Organization: Washington University School of Law
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I tried to install quotas on my system, following the instructions 
straight from the FreeBSD documentation web pages.  Everything seemed to 
go smooth:
1. compiled and installed the new kernel with the quotas option
2. edited /etc/fstab to put userquota option on two file systems
3. created an empty quota.user file in the root of both file systems
4. rebooted
5. ran edquota on a test user
6. ran repquota -a and everything was working

Then problems:
1. tried to give all users the same quotas with a perl script that put 
all real users in a long string with a space delimiter and ran
edquota -up test long_string_of_all_users
2. ran repquota -a and although everyone had the correct quotas, their 
usage numbers were obviously wrong
3. rebooted, and tried a quota command from a regular user and it hung 
the machine
4. started over with blank quota.user files and tried quota command it 
hung the system again
5. rebooted the system without quota.user files or quotas in /etc/fstab 
and started completely over, yet still, any quota command or quotacheck 
command hangs the system

HELP!!!!  :O
[I have gotten a little frustrated at this point]
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Matt Rosenberg
Washington University School of Law
St. Louis, MO, USA

matt@www.wulaw.wustl.edu
http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/~matt/
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