RHBA-2011:0023 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated quota package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements,
including ext4, remote quota limits, and LDAP address lookup, is now available.

Description

The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and
limiting user and group disk usage on file systems.

This updated quota package provides fixes for the following bugs:

• The quotaon(8) man page also serves as the manual documentation for the

quotaoff command; however, the quotaoff(8) man page was not correctly linked to
it. With this update, this error has been corrected and quotaoff(8) man page is
now redirected to the quotaon(8). (BZ#574804)

• When a user reached the hard quota limit (the maximal disk usage a user cannot

exceed), the quota command did not display the remaining grace period (the
remaining time before enforcing the limits) in its output. With this update,
quota always displays the amount of time remaining in the grace period when the
user has exceeded or met their hard or soft disk usage limit. (BZ#589472)

• The warnquota(8) man page implied that the warnquota command checks the disk

quota for all file systems, whereas it actually only checks local file systems.
It does not, for example, check NFS-mounted file systems (i.e. those mounted by
the Network File System) with quotas enabled. The man page has been clarified in
this regard and no longer contains misleading information. (BZ#589523)

• The quota package contained the xqmstat(8) man page despite the fact that Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not support XFS quotas. The man page has been
removed from the package to avoid confusion. (BZ#589578)

• The manual page for the remote quota server was found under rquotad(8), even

though the actual command is "rpc.rquotad". To avoid possible confusion, the man
page has also been made accessible under the more intuitive name
"rpc.quotad(8)". (BZ#595729)

• The quotactl(2) manual page has been updated to refer to correct structure

names. (BZ#656827)

In addition, this updated package provides the following enhancements:

• When a user reaches their quota limit, the warnquota utility can send a

warning email to that user. This update enables support for LDAP so that
warnquota can now be configured to obtain a user's email address from an LDAP
directory instead of simply delivering the quota usage warning email to the
local host. (BZ#459494, BZ#447780)

• The superuser is now able to use the '-r' (remote) option to edit quota limits

on a remote system via remote procedure call (RPC) using the standard quota
limit utilities. This enables quota limits on file systems which are mounted
over the network. (BZ#469753)

• The rquotad(8) man page referred to the rpc(3N) man page; however, the "3N"

manual section is not provided. This update changes all "rpc" references to
correctly refer to rpc(3). (BZ#474836)

• Quota limits for the ext4 file system are newly supported with this updated

package. (BZ#500231)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated quota package, which resolves these
issues and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 459494 - quota rpm missing ldap support
• BZ - 469753 - Enable remote quota support (--enable-rpcsetquota=yes) in RHEL quota utilities
• BZ - 474836 - Documentation inconsistency in rquotad manpage
• BZ - 500231 - RFE: quota support for ext4 in RHEL5
• BZ - 574804 - missing symbolic link for quotaoff man page
• BZ - 589472 - quota command does not show grace period when hard limit is reached
• BZ - 589523 - warnquota does not support NFS shares
• BZ - 589578 - xqmstats man page is present but the utility is not
• BZ - 595729 - missing manpage for rpc.rquotad
• BZ - 656827 - quotactl(2) refers to if_dqinfo and if_dqblk structure which have been renamed to dqinfo and dqblk

CVEs

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References

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