RHBA-2013:1548 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated quota packages that fix one bug and add two enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The quota packages contain a suite of system administration tools for monitoring
and limiting user and group disk usage on file systems.

This update fixes the following bug:

• When SELinux denied access to the quotacheck utility, the "quotacheck -c"

command did not report any errors and failed with the exit code 0. With this
update, quotacheck internals have been changed to propagate any error with an
appropriate non-zero exit code, and to print accurate warnings if the old quota
file could not be used. As a result, quotacheck now reports errors correctly
while initializing quotas on a file system. (BZ#717948)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

• The edquota and setquota utilities now support input values entered with the

use of multiplicative unit abbreviations (K, M, G, T). (BZ#890051)

• With this update, the quotacheck utility no longer checks quota files on the

GFS2 and XFS file systems. Since these file systems do not have any quota files,
the check was redundant. (BZ#846120)

Users of quota are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this
bug and add 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
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 717948 - quotacheck -c fails without reporting error

CVEs

(none)

References

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