I'm interested too. I've seen this problem (quite a few times) on a large system (1k-10k+) users. It only happens on systems being provisioned to via pw.
Matt On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > [in regard to multiple concurrent pw(8) processes hosing master.passwd] > >> The reason for this is that the only file pw(8) locks is >> /etc/master.passwd.new when it copies into it. > > [snip] > >> If anybody's interested, I could take a stab at hacking something >> together for this sometime over the next week or so. > > I'm interested. How did the stab go? I'm browsing archives and I can't > find any more followups. > > Geoff > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
