Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 17:10:00 -0400 From: Matt Simerson <freebsd@blockads.com> To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Cc: <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5 Message-ID: <B8F72368.93A%freebsd@blockads.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205021621350.12421-100000@sea-incorporated.com>
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I'm interested too. I've seen this problem (quite a few times) on a large system (1k-10k+) users. It only happens on systems being provisioned to via pw. Matt On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > [in regard to multiple concurrent pw(8) processes hosing master.passwd] > >> The reason for this is that the only file pw(8) locks is >> /etc/master.passwd.new when it copies into it. > > [snip] > >> If anybody's interested, I could take a stab at hacking something >> together for this sometime over the next week or so. > > I'm interested. How did the stab go? I'm browsing archives and I can't > find any more followups. > > Geoff > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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