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- From: rodean@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:13:32 GMT
- Subject: Re: hp730 and disk quotas
- Message-ID: <7371183@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- References: <1709@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
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- In article <1709@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman) writes:
- > We have recently received an HP730 which we are currently setting up.
- >
- > Every time someone logs in it insists on doing some kind of
- > disk quota checking i.e. we get the message:
- >
- > Please wait...checking disk quotas
- >
- > Is there any way of disabling this ?
-
- Yes. Basically you need to make /usr/bin/quota non-executable. There
- are several ways to do this, among them (in increasing order of effect):
-
- chmod 444 /usr/bin/quota # or
- mv /usr/bin/quota /usr/bin/quota.save # or
- rm /usr/bin/quota
-
- > What is it doing exactly ?
- > It's not being done in csh.login so is it a kernel thingy ?
-
- The login command is doing it. It was added in case an NFS server is
- down, since /usr/bin/quota will hang on that until it times out. This
- period of inactivity was very confusing to users who didn't have access
- to command source. The message is annoying to be sure, especially to
- those who never intend to have disk quotas.
-
- >
- > Any help will be much appreciated.
-
- Bruce Rodean
- rodean@fc.hp.com
-
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