[comp.os.vms] my diskquota problems

SYSTEM@CRNLNS.BITNET (08/05/87)

Derek and Anil,

Thanks for your reminder about privileged user's files
being created with the creator's uic rather than the directory
owner's. As best I can tell, that is NOT what's going on.

The two most recent files in question were written by a priv'd user
in HIS OWN DIRECTORY. They appeared with the uic of a NON-PRIV'D account.
Other files created in exactly the same way had the right owner.

We have also seen this happen at random for completely
non-priv'd people creating files in their own directories.
There were no recorded disk errors or system crashes for the
time the files were created.

Now when people come to me complaining of their quota being out of
whack (everybody knows about the extra blocks) I submit an
overnight batch job that gets a complete directory of our entire
user structure (3 ra81s) showing the owner fields of every file.
I then have to go through all 90,000 files looking for ones
with owners that don't agree with the owners of the containing
directory. I usually find a dozen or so.
grump grump


Selden E. Ball, Jr.
(Wilson Lab's network and system manager)

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