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Date:      Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:18:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Disappearing space in root fs.
Message-ID:  <199502270618.WAA24597@ref.tfs.com>

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Any YP NIS people care to comment ?

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> From clary@elec.uq.oz.au Sun Feb 26 16:10:04 1995
> From: clary@elec.uq.oz.au (Clary Harridge)
> Message-Id: <9502270009.AA19763@s1.elec.uq.oz.au>
> Subject: Re: Disappearing root file system
> To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:09:23 +1000 (EST)
> In-Reply-To: <199502240745.XAA12715@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 23, 95 11:45:09 pm
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22]
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> 
> > 
> > Hmm,
> > 
> > could it be that some process (YP ?) has one of the /etc/*.db files
> > open while the passwd gets changed ?
> > (Just guessing here...)
> 
> Strange you should say that Poul as I have seen yp type messages which I could 
> not explain. I am only running 
> 
> 	vipw			=> to add a user line
> 	and
> 	/usr/bin/passwd $name	=> to set a passwd
> 
> so would not expect yppasswd to run. This would appear to be incorrect
> behaviour if it does.
> 
> I am not running any yp daemons.
> 
> Is vipw or passwd somehow capable of trying to start yppasswd?
> 
> I seem to lose about 300-400 blocks on / each time I run vipw + passwd.
> 
> It seems that maybe the temporary file is unlinked but not finally removed.
> > 
> > What does fsck tell you about the files ?
> > 
> I will let you know later
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions!
> -- 
> regards			Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
> Clary Harridge		University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072
> 			Phone: +61-7-365-3636	Fax:   +61-7-365-4999
> 			INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.oz.au
> 


-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.



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