Quota Questions 5.3 Release

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Feb 15, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Jon Adams wrote:

> Benjamin Dover wrote:
>
>> Take a look at this section of the handbook
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html
>>
> Yes, I've read this and am aware of the process of recompiling the 
> kernel to implement quotas (done it before). What I am looking for is 
> an alternative to recompiling the kernel due to the cripppled box I 
> have.
>
>> Its not left out its just not an standard option.  Compiling a kernel
>> is not a difficult task.  It sounds more difficult than it really is.
>>
> I agree...  I have FreeBSD 5.3 and a 5.1 box I have lazily not yet 
> updated on a pair of poweredges in my apt,
> I rebuilt the 5.3 kernel a couple of time when I was experimenting 
> with trying to install Oracle 8i on it (before giving up in 
> frustration due to the Oracle make files exiting emulation)
>
> Thanks for the tip on sysinstall... D'oh
>

I replied to Jon off list but wanted to stick it in here for the 
archives

You should be able to just install cvsup and then make an appropriate 
cvsupfile.  This will get you the sources and ports etc if you do it 
right.  One easy thing :-)

best
Chad