Thanks to John Venier <venier_at_mdanderson.org> and Jim Caldwell
<caldwell_at_heimdal.compchem.ucsf.edu> for their replies. Apparently this
is a common question and I was encouraged to earch the list's archives
at
http://www.tru64.org/ (which I probably should have done first
anyway). I did so and found that the consensus is that the messages are
kernel debugging messages that never got removed. They show up whenever
AdvFS is used on the root file system without quotas enabled. They are
not errors and should be ignored.
Most of the material in the archive pertains to v4.0x. I happen to be
using v5.0A (I forgot to mention that in my original question). So
apparently the messages are still enabled in that version of TU.
Original question:
I recently noticed the following odd messages in my system log (and on the
console). Should I be worried about these? What do they mean, exactly?
vmunix: chk_bf_quota: user quota underflow for user 240 on fileset /
vmunix: chk_bf_quota: group quota underflow for group 7 on fileset /
vmunix: chk_bf_quota: user quota underflow for user 219 on fileset /
The root file system is AdvFS. Quotas are not active in fileset /. The
relevant line from /etc/fstab is
root_domain#root / advfs rw 0 1
The messages above all occured a few hours apart (no obvious pattern).
This is not the first time I've ever seen such messages... but such
messages are rare.
TIA
Peter
Received on Tue Feb 27 2001 - 14:21:21 NZDT