Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about quotas. A summary
of the fix follows...
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > During some quota repairs on our system (DEC server 3000 running
> > > OSF/1 2.0) I found a strange error I have not been able to fix.
> > >
> > > I have a quota associated with a UID but no user associated with the UID.
> > >
> > > repquota /home2 |grep 435 (reports)
> > > 435 ++ 1994 1 1 5days 5 1 1 5days
> > >
> > > quota 435 (reports)
> > > Disk quotas for user (no account) (uid 435):
> > >
> > > /home2 1994 1 1 5days 5 1 1 5days
> > >
> > > How do I eliminate this quota and uid. It seems that the uid does not
> > > exist anywhere else except in the quota tables.
>
To fix this problem:
Delete all of the UID files using the find command -user switch.
edquota the UID and set everything to zero. This removes the quota.
Thanks again for everyones help!
Joel Caven
Broadcast Engineer, WMSE Radio/Milwaukee.
DEC Systems Administrator, Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Computer Engineering student, Milwaukee School of Engineering.
E-mail: cavenj_at_odo.msoe.edu
P.O. Box 93506
Milwaukee, WI 53203
Received on Fri Apr 19 1996 - 18:40:07 NZST