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- From: chris@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Christian Finger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: how to disable quota check at login???
- Message-ID: <1h82vfINN8en@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:57:03 GMT
- References: <fish.725058012@news.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <fish.725058012@news.gsfc.nasa.gov>, fish@daacdev1.stx.com writes:
- | /etc/rc does not have the quota check in it and i am
- | not using quotas so why does the system check for them???
- |
- | anyway, i want to turn this off because every time the
- | network has a problem (and thus my NFS mounted disks have
- | a problem) quota hangs indefinately for some users and
- | i have to kill their quota process and then everything
- | continues on
- |
- | thanx,
- | fish
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- /bin/login calls /usr/bin/quota to display the user's disk usage and limits.
- If an NFS-Server is unavailible /usr/bin/quota will hang.
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- If you do not use quotas anyway try
- cd /usr/bin; mv quota quota.hp; ln -s /bin/true quota
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- Hope that helps.
-
- C.Finger
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