Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:40:06 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: "'Geoffrey C. Speicher'" <geoff@speicher.org>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: pw useradd not atomic? Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701023137@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Geoffrey C. Speicher [mailto:geoff@speicher.org] > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Don Bowman wrote: > > > Sometimes after this script been run I end up with only the > > last few lines of the groups file. > > > > Is 'pw' not atomic somehow? The lines that are there seem > > complete, i'm just missing the first 100 lines or so. Its > > not always the same amount missing. > > This is discussed in bin/38676 in gnats, but there has been > no followup > since June. This problem bit me more than once by corrupting > master.passwd, so I'm running a locally patched version until > some kind of > fix hits -stable. > > Geoff Thanks very much, that was exactly the problem, I've applied the patch given in the PR. --don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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