Hi, In testing a conversion from a system user sendmail/qpopper set up to a cdb vpopmail set up, I noticed if I tried to batch multiple 'vadduser' entries, it would sometimes fail writing the cdb file and would build a cdb with only the last few entries, and overwrite the live vpasswd.cdb file. This is obviously a problem :)
Is there any way to safeguard against this? The plain text vpasswd file is unaffected, so any vpasswd/vadduser/vdeluser command subsequentially entered will rebuild the database properly, but we intend to have many batch entries later on to synchronize with another external database, and we dont want this happening in the middle of the day, even for a few minutes.. I could easily add a 'sleep x' statement in the batch file between commands, but for large batch entries, this would overlap with the next batch run, since we hope to run the sync once per minute. Also, what would be a safe value for 'x' if this was the only solution? Any suggestions on this? In responding, please keep in mind that we'd like to maintain CDB as opposed to external databases(we already have enough problems synchronizing the current DB2/MSSQL databases :). I'd like to avoid having to run an LDAP or MySQL server. Thanks in advance, ----------------- Andre Fortin, CCNA Systems Administrator Technician Persona Communications, Northern Division 500 Barrydowne Rd. Sudbury, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: (705)560-1560 ext. 266
