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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers $home full? or quota enabled? Post 302251758 by dan-e on Monday 27th of October 2008 11:49:28 PM

10-28-2008

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ahhh, well I still haven't figured out what is going on but I have made a successful workaround. From wasting about 5 hours trying different commands etc, I noticed that my .bash_history file grew to be > 1024 bytes. Woohoo. So I:
1. manually rebuilt my known_hosts file outside of Unix (ahh, the splendour), including the new entry I needed in there which was taking the file > 1024 bytes.
2. and then (back in unix) moved the .bash_history file over the top of known_hosts
3. vi known_hosts
4. Paste (insert) rebuilt contents from Windows editor > known_hosts
5. Deleted the 'history' junk still sitting in known_hosts, and saved.

I can now grow known_hosts up to 2047 bytes. And I still can't take any other file over the 1024 byte boundary.

The trick to all this seemed to be 2 parts - (1) acquiring a file 'out of the heavens' in $home which was > 1024 bytes long, and (2) ensuring that the file never fell below the 1024 byte boundary. I effectively pushed this file around until I had moved it+renamed it+modified the contents to my purposes.

This reeks of old-skool hack. I really need to know what is causing this, any suggestions more than welcome.

Ps: Something in my head is sqeaking "something to do with a bug in user account creation in unix... you have to make a file of a certain size in the users folder and then remove it or it causes this problem later on or something"

Last edited by dan-e; 10-28-2008 at 12:51 AM.. Reason: more info

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rquotad

RQUOTAD(8)						      System Manager's Manual							RQUOTAD(8)

NAME

       rquotad, rpc.rquotad - remote quota server

SYNOPSIS

       rpc.rquotad [ -sSFI ] [ -p port ]

DESCRIPTION

       rquotad	is  an	rpc(3) server which returns quotas for a user of a local filesystem which is mounted by a remote machine over the NFS.	It
       also allows setting of quotas on NFS mounted filesystem (if configured during compilation and allowed by a command line	option	-S).   The
       results	are used by quota(1) to display user quotas for remote filesystems and by edquota(8) to set quotas on remote filesystems.  rquotad
       daemon uses tcp-wrappers library (under service name rquotad) which allows you to specify hosts allowed/disallowed to use the  daemon  (see
       hosts.allow(5) manpage for more information). The rquotad daemon is normally started at boot time from the system startup scripts.

OPTIONS

       -V, --version
	      Shows version of quota tools.

       -s, --no-setquota
	      Don't allow setting of quotas (default). This option is available only if utilities were compiled with the rpcsetquota option.

       -S, --setquota
	      Allow setting of quotas. This option is available only if utilities were compiled with the rpcsetquota option.

       -F, --foreground
	      Run daemon in foreground (may be useful for debugging purposes).

       -I, --autofs
	      Do not ignore autofs mountpoints.

       -p port, --port port
	      Listen on alternate port port.

       -x path, --xtab path
	      Set  an  alternative file with NFSD export table. This file is used to determine pseudoroot of NFSv4 exports. The pseudoroot is then
	      prepended to each relative path (i.e. a path not beginning by '/') received in a quota RPC request.

FILES

       aquota.user or aquota.group
			   quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       quota.user or quota.group
			   quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       /etc/mtab	   default filesystems

SEE ALSO

       quota(1), rpc(3), nfs(5), services(5), inetd(8)

																	RQUOTAD(8)