Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:46:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pw useradd not atomic? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10212070241001.479-100000@speicher.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701023135@mail.sandvine.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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