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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


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