Solution: weird rpc.rquotad messages

The following solution was submitted from

Jeffrey A. St. Pierre whose credit for the work-around goes to:
>
> > Erald,
> >
> > I have the fix.  You must setup the quota files for the exported
> > filesystem, even if you don't use them...  The other thing you
> > could do is turn off the rquotad, but in my case that wasn't an
> > option, and it is also a bit of a mess because it is part of the
> > /etc/init.d/nfs script.  it's easier just to add in the quota
> > options in the /etc/fstab:
> >
> > LABEL=/export/rd01  /export/rd01  ext3 \
> >                      defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
> >
> > then do a 'quotacheck -acug'
> >
> > I still think it is a bug.  I think if a filesystem doesn't have
> > a quota on it, the daemon should ignore the request... but hey,
> > I'm not the developer.... hope this helps!
> >
> > -Jeff

Also a Bugzilla ticket #123384 is related to this

Hope this will help anyone running into similar problems.


On Sun, 2 May 2004, Erald Troja wrote:

> hi managers!
> 
> i have a rhel 3.0 (192.168.1.3/255.255.255.0) that exports its 
> /var/spool/mail to another subnet host running 
> RH 9.0 (192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0)
> 
> server is running nfs-utils-1.0.6-7.EL, whereas the workstation is running 
> mount-2.11y-9. the entry on the /etc/exports file is 
> 
> /var/spool/mail 192.168.0.1(rw,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,secure)
> 
> the entry on the workstation fstab is 
> 
> moon:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs
> rw,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,bg,hard,intr,udp,timeo=10,nfsvers=3,retry=3 0 0
> 
> all works fine in terms of sending/receiving mail.
> 
> i should tell you that i also mount the /home filesystems (from the 
> same server to the same workstation) that is usr/grp quota enabled.
> 
> now, whenever users try to check their quota via either 'quota -v' or 
> 'quota' i get the following message on the server
> 
> "May  2 10:27:40 moon rpc.rquotad: Can't find filesystem mountpoint for 
> directory /var/spool/mail
> moon rpc.rquotad: No correct mountpoint specified."
> 
> has anyone experienced these kind of messages and been able to find out 
> the origin of them?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Erald Troja
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