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 wonde
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. I
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 farther-r
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
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) proces
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:
>
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
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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600
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
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