[Q] how to configure rquotad - Remote quota server

From: Ian Mortimer <ian_at_physics.uq.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:32:53 +1000

Hi DU Admins

To reinforce Richard's search for a solution to quotas for
automounted user areas this is the information I sent him which
indicates to me that the problem is not with rquotad but with DU's
quota command:

> One interesting thing: on a HP box running HP-UX 10.01 I can
> get quotas for a user area automounted from an Alpha running
> DU 4.0c.
>
> On the HP box for a user area automounted from an alpha:
>
> # quota -v user
> Disk quotas for user (uid 1932):
> Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit
timeleft
> /tmp_mnt/home/user
> 39201 40000 45000 3007 0 0
>
>
> While doing the same on a second alpha (not the one the user's area
> is on) gives:
>
> # quota user
> Disk quotas for user user (uid 1932): none
>
> # quota -v user
> Disk quotas for user user (uid 1932):
> Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit
grace
> swap1 0 0 0 0 0 0
> / 0 0 0 0 0 0
> /usr 0 0 0 0 0 0
> /usr/users 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> My conclusion from that is that it's not the rquotad on the server
> that's the problem. It's reporting quotas correctly to the HP box.
> It's DU's quota command that's failing.

> From all of this and from reading the man page for quota I've come
> to the conclusion that the quota command on DU only looks at
> filesystems listed in /etc/fstab.

Maybe what's needed is a patch for the quota command from Digital/Compaq
or a drop in replacement from elsewhere.


Regards
Ian

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Received on Wed Aug 26 1998 - 22:34:01 NZST

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