Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:36:13 +0300 (EEST) From: slava <sl@zeus.dnt.md> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: loosing users from master.passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909241021130.69406-100000@zeus.dnt.md>
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Greetings, I recently migrated a 10K user base from redhat to 3.3release. It's a web based email server where about four users are being added every minute at the moment. I had a problem pwd_mkdb being slow and I recompiled it to use 4mb cache size as many of you suggested. Now a killer problem has showed up. About ones a day I loose about half of the master.passwd file, I believe when the .db files are rebult after a user is being added. Users are added only by using 'pw' and 'chpass'. I made a test starting five 'pw useradd' processes at once and after I repeated it a couple of times I was able to reproduce the problem again. it looks like a lock on the master.passwd file is not working properly. Right now I have to backup the file every 10 min. to make sure I don't loose too much stuff. I will be very appreciative for any suggestion on what to try to make my system more stable. By the way, it's a PII 233, 64MB RAM. Thank you, slava revutchi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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