Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:41:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: owensc@enc.edu Subject: Re: a freebsd testimonial Message-ID: <199609301141.LAA02475@CoDe.CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960927120639.19048J-100000@dingo.enc.edu> from "Charles Owens" at Sep 27, 96 12:38:39 pm
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> 3. A realization about quotas: I'd heard somewhere that > its a good idea to turn the quota system off (quotaoff) > before changing a user's quotas (edquota). I'd been > doing this in my adduser script and whenever I added > a user the system would crash shortly thereafter. > Apparantly some nasty system bug was being triggered. > Not toggling the quota system on and off before using > edquota got rid of a good portion of my system crashes. I don't know it very well, but as I know, after turning quota off, and before turning it on, you have to run the quotacheck command, to actualize the database. -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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