At 10:56 AM 8/8/01, you wrote:
>How do I get Aolserver to recognize that a user has been manually updated in
>the passwd file on disk without restarting/HUPing the server? I have
>"Skiplocks" set to off in my config file (if its on and I try ns_passwdcheck
>it crashes the server hard without a log entry)...
>
>It would be really nice to be able to check this without having to build a
>proc to manually process the file each time a request is made and without
>the connectivity downtime caused by a server reload...
>
>Thanks
I think you will need to create a custom module to do this for you. There
is no code I am aware of that reloads the files off disk. Short of
checking on each request, you may consider:
A) A scheduled proc that checks/reloads every five minutes
B) A web interface to the passwd file that reloads the file after updating it
C) A web page/url that shell scripts could use to get the file reloaded
for them:
in other words if you have a shell script that updates the passwd file for
you, the shell script could do an http request on something like
/passwd-reload
to get a tcl script within aol server to reload the passwd file
Jerry
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