On Mon, 13 May 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
I'll see if I can put some time over the next few days into delving into
it and at least getting the first step (of making the locking work more
usefully) work.
Hi Matt. Just wondering if
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
I'll see if I can put some time over the next few days into delving into
it and at least getting the first step (of making the locking work more
usefully) work.
Hi Matt. Just wondering if you've made any progress on making pw use a
lockfile. Is
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Jeff Jirsa, and lo! it spake thus:
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but /var/run seems like the more
logical answer. Read-only / filesystems would have a hard time creating
temp lock files in /etc. If nothing else, make it
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
Well, the stab didn't go because nobody was interested 8-)
Sorry --- I was interested, but I didn't see your original message. This
problem has been biting me (and a client) in the ass for quite some time.
I actually had in mind some
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
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
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:10:00PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Matt Simerson, and lo! it spake thus:
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
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
What do people think of using the external lock file (well, I can't
actually think of any OTHER way to do it, so...)? I'm thinking /var/run,
but on the flipside just putting it in /etc might be cleaner. Comments?
Feel free to correct me if I'm
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Subject: Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:43:51PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Daniel Sickels, and lo! it spake thus:
Multiple instances of pw making chanegs at the same time cause some rather
horrid things
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