Re: passwd and user quota [off-topic]

2000-01-19 Thread Tomek Lipski
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > search is still linear. The BSDs on the other hand make a DB database > > out of the /etc/passwd, and so it's much faster to lookup. > > really, one should qualify what version of BSD you mean here.

Re: passwd and user quota

2000-01-19 Thread richard
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > search is still linear. The BSDs on the other hand make a DB database > out of the /etc/passwd, and so it's much faster to lookup. really, one should qualify what version of BSD you mean here. if I dig up a system running BSD 4.2 or 4.3 will it really

Re: passwd and user quota

2000-01-19 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:59:02AM +, Simon Rae wrote: > Could anyone give me a rough indication of how many user accounts my > qmail server can handle (using passwd) before I'd need to start looking > at implementing a cdb or MySQL for POP verification? It really depends on how your OS hand

passwd and user quota

2000-01-19 Thread Simon Rae
Could anyone give me a rough indication of how many user accounts my qmail server can handle (using passwd) before I'd need to start looking at implementing a cdb or MySQL for POP verification? I run qmail on RH6 Linux on a PII 350 with 128 meg RAM with oodles of disk space. Ta Si