Hello all,
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Richard Bemrose wrote:
> How do I configure rquotad (Remote quota server)? The man page is not very
> helpful. There are several similar question within the alpha-osf-managers
> archive but with no summaries.
Refer to the following posting for full details:
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/alpha-osf-managers/1998/08/msg00188.html
Unfortunately, I received no replies from my original posting but it would
seem I am not the only one who wishes to configure 'rquotad'; Ian Mortimer
<ian_at_physics.uq.edu.au> also expressed an interest.
I have found a quick and nasty work around. The quota program (seems) only
to report quotas on filesystems mounted in /etc/fstab. Which is of *NOT*
much help if the filesystems are auto-mounted. Therefore, to fool quota
into working I simply place dummy (and technically incorrect) entries
within /etc/fstab; such as:
-- cut --
pol1:/local1/users /uu/pol1a nfs ro 0 0
pol1:/local2/users /uu/pol1b nfs ro 0 0
pol1:/local3/users /uu/pol1c nfs ro 0 0
-- cut --
Where, 'pol1' is our main server and '/uu' directory does not exist (the
real mount points are '/u'). I then fed the output through 'sed' to
display '/uu' as '/u'.
Nevertheless, these incorrect entries display error messages upon booting.
But if nobody else reveals how they configure rquotad, I'll have to live
with it.
A definitive summary will be posted, if at all possible.
Regards,
Rich
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