Duh. Egg all over my face, for missing such a simple thing as a misspelled word. OK.

Incidentally, I have found and resolved the dotlock problem. Nothing to do with NFS, rather there was some legacy (something my predecessor had set up 10 years ago or more) instructions in the .procmailrc file that were trashing the locks; details to follow.

Anway, I corrected the misspelled filename, and Dovecot now loads successfully with the fs quota plugin...but that then fails... Please again, your help...hopefully, this is not as elementary as a misspelled filename, but just as quickly fixable with your eagle eye.
Again this is AIX; FWIW, what Ralf does doesn't use fs quota, so this is new territory. There is a trace attached. Here it goes:

I start DC under truss truss -d -f -t !_poll dovecot > /tmp/dovecot.truss.out 2>&1

in maillog, I see:

Jun 5 11:31:38 mercury mail:info dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up

Draves does some stuff:

Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=draves Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 851978 1 Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): passwd(draves,10.20.30.14): lookup Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 draves system_user=draves uid=220 gid=20 0 home=/home/hcrc/draves Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<draves>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.20.30.14, lip=192.246.229.21, TLS Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Jun 5 11:32:56 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Jun 5 11:32:57 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): Effective uid=220, gid=200, home=/home/hcrc/draves Jun 5 11:32:57 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): mbox: data=/home/hcrc/draves/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/draves:INDEX=/var/dcn dx/draves Jun 5 11:32:57 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): mbox: root=/home/hcrc/draves/mail, index=/var/dcndx/draves, inbox=/var/spool/ mail/draves Jun 5 11:32:57 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): fs quota add storage dir = /home/hcrc/draves/mail Jun 5 11:32:57 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): fs quota block device = /dev/hd4 Jun 5 11:32:57 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(draves): fs quota mount point = / Jun 5 11:32:58 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(draves): quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /) failed: Invalid argument

This is 1:20 or 80 seconds after the start of DC and about line 11982 in the trace file

I (sdean) do some stuff:

Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=sdean Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 2 1351756 1 Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): passwd(sdean,10.20.10.75): lookup Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 2 sdean system_user=sdean uid=202 gid=20 0 home=/home/hcrc/sdean Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sdean>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.20.10.75, lip=192.246.229.21, TLS Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Jun 5 11:33:05 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): Effective uid=202, gid=200, home=/home/hcrc/sdean Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox: data=/home/hcrc/sdean/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/sdean:INDEX=/var/dcndx/ sdean Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): mbox: root=/home/hcrc/sdean/mail, index=/var/dcndx/sdean, inbox=/var/spool/mai l/sdean Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): fs quota add storage dir = /home/hcrc/sdean/mail Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): fs quota block device = /dev/hd4 Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:info dovecot: IMAP(sdean): fs quota mount point = / Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /) failed: Invalid argument

This is 1:28 or 88 seconds after the start of DC and about line 23478 in the trace file

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In syslog, the same stuff:

4220 root@mercury:/var/log ## tail -f syslog | grep dovecot Jun 5 11:32:58 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(draves): quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /) failed: Invalid argument Jun 5 11:33:06 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(sdean): quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /) failed: Invalid argument

Compressed trace file attached.........

Thanks in advance.

Timo Sirainen wrote:

Why is it "plugins"? It should be "plugin".

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035