Issued:

2013-11-20

Updated:

2013-11-20

RHBA-2013:1548 - quota bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

quota bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

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

Updated Packages

• quota-debuginfo-3.17-20.el6.ppc.rpm
• quota-devel-3.17-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
• quota-debuginfo-3.17-20.el6.s390x.rpm
• quota-debuginfo-3.17-20.el6.ppc64.rpm
• quota-devel-3.17-20.el6.s390x.rpm
• quota-3.17-20.el6.s390x.rpm
• quota-devel-3.17-20.el6.ppc64.rpm
• quota-3.17-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
• quota-devel-3.17-20.el6.ppc.rpm
• quota-3.17-20.el6.src.rpm
• quota-devel-3.17-20.el6.i686.rpm
• quota-3.17-20.el6.i686.rpm
• quota-devel-3.17-20.el6.s390.rpm
• quota-debuginfo-3.17-20.el6.i686.rpm
• quota-debuginfo-3.17-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
• quota-3.17-20.el6.ppc64.rpm
• quota-debuginfo-3.17-20.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 717948

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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