Russell Rademacher wrote:
>
> Have anyone noticed a major password file problem that is occuring with
> the Vpopmail 4.9 and beyond? It seems of late that over a period of time
> by random uses, the vpassword files seems to disappear or some of the user
> accounts entries in the file itself disappear.
>
> This problem did not happens with the 4.8.5 version when I last used it
> but when I upgraded it to 4.9.0, boy...did it all starts. And I have to
> manually rebuild those missing vpassword files and some cases, some of the
> domains itself.
>
> Ken... is this the result of the locking code or something? Since I am
> asking is that this is occuring on all three servers I manage and this have
> not happened til I upgraded it to the latest version you had released. If
> you are wondering, on two servers, there is about 1000 domains on each
> one...with the last server handling over 3,387 domains at my last count.
> So... I hope the fix you are going to release will fix this quickly, since
> I am not sure if I want to use your development version to put it into
> operation or not, or go back to previous version, if I can find it.
None of the locking code has changed since way way back.
But in any case, I've finished replacing the old locking
code with Eric Peters new locking code.
Please give it a try and let us know if it works or not.
Here is the url
http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/vpopmail-4.9.3.tar.gz
Ken
