Quota (and vquota) commands not working

From: Ray Lauff <ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 02:12:58 -0500 (EST)

I am having a problem with quotas on our systems. This must be a common
problem, since I've just searched the archives and found many QUESTIONS
about this but no answers.

I have the quota enabled for our /home volume, which appears as the
following in /etc/fstab:

home_dmn#home /home advfs rq,userquota,groupquota 2 0

If I do an 'edquota' on a user whose home directory is on /home I can
see the quota as we have it set. BUT, the user can not see their own
quotas. The 'quota' commands return

% /usr/sbin/quota
Disk quotas for user testme (uid 107): none
% /usr/sbin/vquota
Disk quotas for user testme (uid 107): none
%

If I try to use lots of disk space on user 'testme' I get the following
messages:

/home: write failed, user disk limit reached

/home: warning, user disk quota exceeded

So I know that the quota is being enforced, but the user has no way
to determine their disk allocation short of trying to use it all up.

The permissions on the /home/quota.user and /home/quota.group are 640:

-rw-r----- 1 root operator 32768 Oct 19 1995 quota.group
-rw-r----- 1 root operator 2097152 Nov 3 01:45 quota.user

Changing it to 644 makes no difference.

We are running DU 4.0. We have had this problem previously with
earlier versions of DU as well.

Does anyone have a solution?

TIA

ray
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Ray Lauff : ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu : (215) 204-5678 : Temple University
Received on Sun Nov 03 1996 - 08:23:18 NZDT

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