Re: [PLUG] Quotas hangs on reboot

[Chris Shank <shankwc999@yahoo.com>]

Thanks! I'll see what happens when I reboot.

-chris


--- "Michael F. Robbins" <mike@gamerack.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 18:45, Chris Shank wrote:
> > RH 7.2, when shutting down it hangs indefinately
> > trying to stop the
> > quotas service. i think it is probably looking for
> a
> > CF card in my reader 
> > that isn't there. 
> 
> Look at /etc/fstab.  If the CF card is listed as a
> mount point, put
> "noquota" as an option.
> 
> > is this something that i need to
> > have running (i don't think
> > I'm using it)
> 
> IIRC, there is no daemon that watches quotas.  On
> bootup, you call
> /sbin/quotaon and on shutdown /sbin/quotaoff.  If
> you don't need it, you
> can probably remove it from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
> 
> > and how do i stop it from running -
> > doesn't show up in services
> > gui configure program.
> 
> It doesn't show up as an rc.d/init.d script because
> it isn't one.  It's
> done manually in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.  In RedHat,
> quotas are turned off
> in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt.  But be careful about
> removing this:  if
> they're turned on, and you never turn them off, you
> might just keep the
> filesystem locked open (so you wouldn't be able to
> shut down) but I'm
> not sure about this.
> 
> Michael F. Robbins
> mike@gamerack.com
> 
> 
> 
>
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