> I think you're confused. From the man page for quotacheck:
>
> Quotacheck should be run each time the system boots and mounts
> non-valid file systems. This is most likely to happen
> after a system
> crash.
>
> qmail won't be running that early in the boot, so it's not an issue.
>
> Charles
I'm probably confused; I've never set quotas on a Linux server before. The
parts of the man page for quotacheck to which I was referring:
quotacheck expects each filesystem to be checked to have quota
files named aquota.user and aquota.group located at the root
of the associated file system. If a file is not present, quotacheck
will create it.
...
It is strongly recommended to only run quotacheck with quotas turned
off and the filesystem unmounted or in read-only mode, or quota
corruption can occur. . .
I've never set quotas on this server before so I thought that I must first
run quotacheck to create the aquota.* files. Since qmail will probably dump
at least one e-mail into somebody's Maildir while quotacheck is running I'm
at a loss as to how to keep qmail from delivering locally while still
accepting mail.
Thanks much.
---Norvell Spearman
