HEP System Administration

After a drive failure on one of our servers, I had to remake the quota info. Here’s what I did:

[root@serv1 home]# touch /local/home/aquota.user
[root@serv1 home]# chmod 600 /local/home/aquota.user
[root@cppc home]# quotacheck -vgum /local/home
quotacheck: WARNING -  Quotafile /local/home/aquota.user was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings...
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/sda1 [/local/home] |

Now I could just reset all the user quotas for things to work.

[root@serv1 home]# setquota -u user1 1000000 1500000 200000 300000 -a

I had already mounted the disk with the correct options, but make sure /etc/fstab looks like:

/dev/sda1		/local/home		ext3	defaults,usrquota	1 2

I also then also restarted nfslock, which may or may not have needed to be done. This could have been a totally unrelated problem we were having at the same time.

This laserjet printer would not print anything. It’s connected through the network and I could get to the webpage for it, but it would not print.

Solution:
Hold down both arrow keys and power off and on. Keep holding the keys down until get to Language -> English prompt. Then, just go through and re-setup the printer. After that, things printed ok again.