Bug 589523

Summary:	warnquota does not support NFS shares
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Component:	quota	Assignee:	Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Martin Cermak <mcermak>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.5	CC:	azelinka, mcermak, ovasik, sprabhu, tao
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	quota-3.13-2.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:	395301	Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-01-13 22:10:38 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	395301
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Description Petr Pisar 2010-05-06 11:18:55 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #395301 +++

From the warnquota man page:
warnquota checks the disk quota for each filesystem and mails a warning message
 to  those users who have reached their softlimit.

This however does not work for nfs based mounts using quotas. This was reported
  by a customer.

The support for NFS is disabled in the warnquota code. To confirm this, I posted
a note to the forum on the quota sourceforge.net page and got the confirmation
that it is not supported over NFS and no plans exist currently to add support.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1870399&forum_id=57476

A change instead was made to the warnquota man page to make it clear that
warnquota works only for local filesystems.

http://linuxquota.cvs.sourceforge.net/linuxquota/quota-tools/warnquota.8?r1=1.9&r2=1.10

Can engineering please change the man page to make it clear that the warnquota
utility only works for local filesystems.

--- Additional comment from ovasik on 2010-03-19 10:30:02 EDT ---

easyfix, just manpage change/clarification.

Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2010-05-06 12:16:21 UTC

*** Bug 589531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:10:38 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0023.html