Package: quota
Version: 3.14-7
Severity: normal
I found (and fixed at least on my box) two problems in two Perl scripts shipped
with quota.
I store my user info, including quotas, in LDAP, using the quota.schema
included in the package.
When I tried to use applySystemQuotas.pl (in /usr/share/quota/ldap/) to
actually set those quotas,
it seemed to freeze (the shell command, not the system).
What I found out with ps is that it invoked nano (my $EDITOR) to make temp
aquota.user file.
Killing the script left the console broken (somehow like when you cat a binary).
Killing nano left quotas not applied.
I found that applySystemQuotas.pl tries to use /usr/sbin/edquota_editor as
$equota_editor;
however this file doesn't exist. This second perl script is located in
/usr/share/quota/ldap/.
Here is how I fixed applySystemQuotas.pl :
17:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/ldap-quota# diff applySystemQuotas.pl
/usr/share/quota/ldap/applySystemQuotas.pl
27c27
< my $edquota_editor = '/usr/share/quota/ldap/edquota_editor';
---
> my $edquota_editor = '/usr/sbin/edquota_editor';
53d52
< my $visual = $ENV{'VISUAL'} if $ENV{'VISUAL'};
55d53
< $ENV{'VISUAL'} = $edquota_editor;
79d76
< $ENV{'VISUAL'} = $visual if $visual;
I added the VISUALs lines because man edquota says it calls $EDITOR or $VISUAL
so just to be sure...
The second problem is about /usr/share/quota/ldap/edquota_editor.
I am a real beginner in Perl, but it seems this script uses outdated
declarations.
Anyhow it fails so there is a problem :)
This is what I had to do to make it run :
17:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/ldap-quota# diff edquota_editor
/usr/share/quota/ldap/edquota_editor
13c13
< my $qdata = join '', (@_=<FILE>);
---
> $qdata = join '', (@_=<FILE>);
21,25c21
< # local($rv, $line, @line, $i);
< my $rv;
< my $line;
< my @line;
< my $i;
---
> local($rv, $line, @line, $i);
Again, I am no serious dev. nor Debian Guru so I don't expect thoses fixes to
be correct.
But I certainly can tell you that after this, my LDAP quotas get correctly
applied :)
Also, I don't use setSystemQuotas.pl so there might be similar problems with
it, but I didn't check.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-suff (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages quota depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii e2fslibs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 ext2 filesystem libraries
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.4 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libssl0. 0.9.8e-4 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
quota recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
quota/mailfrom:
quota/signature:
quota/subject:
* quota/run_warnquota: false
quota/group_message:
quota/cc:
quota/supportemail:
quota/supportphone:
quota/cc_before:
quota/group_signature:
quota/message:
quota/rquota_setquota:
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