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Vax 7.0C Problems with quota
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 17 11:03:28 1990
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 May 90 11:02:55 -0400
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
For this report - I have configured wombat with the new rpc.rcquotad
that jnrees sent in yesterday. I am al;so running the new quota program.
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1) Without mappings, quota returns the message of no mappings on host.
This is not a documented change in the man page. The man page states
that "Only the super-user may use the optional user or group argu-
ment to view the limits of users other than himself."
Users are going to see the warning and not know what it means. If a use
loses his/her mapping, the message is not infomative as we have not yet
trained users to understand the filesystm->machine name mapping.
quota.ucb still works....
medusa% ./quota -v
Disk quotas for epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem Type ID usage quota limit timeleft
Warning: no NFS mapping on host: wombat
/mit/groupquota group a_staff 8811 20000 23999
/mit/groupquota group source-access 1109 5000 5999
medusa% quota.ucb -v
Disk quotas for epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
/wombat/u3 3900 100000 100000 931 7600 7800
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2) One used to be able to specify a uid and avoid security. Useful if
consultants wanted to check a users quota. This no longer works.
This should work as I am looking up my self....
medusa% ./quota -v epeisach
Disk quotas for user epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
medusa# ./quota -v 11211
Disk quotas for user epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
medusa# quota.ucb -v 11211
Disk quotas for epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
/wombat/u3 3900 100000 100000 931 7600 7800
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3) Inode limits are not displayed...., nor is "timeleft" for that situation.
While in /wombat/u3:
medusa% touch foo7
medusa% touch foo8
touch: foo8: Disc quota exceeded
medusa% quota -v
Disk quotas for epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem Type ID usage quota limit timeleft
/mit/groupquota group a_staff 8811 20000 23999
/mit/groupquota group source-access 1109 5000 5999
/wombat/u3 user epeisach 3900 100000 100000
Hey - I'm way under quota. My usage is 3900 with a limit 100000, what
happened?
medusa% quota.ucb -v
Disk quotas for epeisach (uid 11211):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
/wombat/u3 3900 100000 100000 939 900 940 7.0 days
Oh, I hit my hard limit on files....
This is not good. Either Moira will have to be modified to give
outrageous numbers for inode limits, or quota should deal.
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4) quota does not fall back on old rpc.quotad if rpc.rcquotad if it
doesn't exist.
All servers need to be updated top run rpc.rcquotad before release date.
I have not looked to see what happens on a server that runs an
rpc.rcquotad - what affects it would have if used on a machine without a
group quota filsystem kernel.
