SUMMARY: quota program hangs during login

From: David Blackman (blackman@athens.dental.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu May 04 1995 - 17:20:59 CDT


I was having a problem with quota hanging during login:
 
> During login to the SPARCstation 20 (Solaris 2.4, Jumbo patch
> 101945-23), the quota program hangs for 30-60 seconds. It may be
> trying to check quotas on (4.1.3) NFS mounted file systems since most
> users' home directories are back on their workstations. quotas are not
> enabled on the SPARCstation 20. quota also hangs if you run it once
> you are logged in.

The solution is to disable the quota program during login (if you
aren't using quotas). Several methods were given:

1. Comment out the calls to quota from /etc/.login and /etc/profile.

2. Mount all filesystems that aren't under quota control with the
    noquota option.

3. mv quota quota.real; link quota to /bin/true.

Also, verify you aren't getting NFS timeouts (NFS server ... not
responding in /var/adm/messages).

Thanks to:

elfchief@lupine.org
Ted Nolan SRI Ft Gordon <ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
ericb@telecnnct.com (Eric William Burger)
sdickson@aries.for.gov.bc.ca (Steve Dickson)
Tom Mornini <tmornini@parallaxinc.com>
Nate Itkin <Nate-Itkin@ptdcs2.intel.com>
Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>

David Blackman
blackman@athens.dental.upenn.edu
(215) 572-1141



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