Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:52:47 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: slava <sl@zeus.dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd taking too long Message-ID: <19990920175247.G98803@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909201936001.40625-100000@zeus.dnt.md> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909201936001.40625-100000@zeus.dnt.md>
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On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 07:41:21PM +0300, slava wrote:
>
> Greetings to all,
>
> I have a free web based email service running on a 3.3-Release machine
> and when users open new acounts it takes about 25 sec. for pwd_mkdb
> to proccess the master.passwd file. And I only have 10,000 accounts
> on the system. All this time the user has to wait.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to accelerate this proccess?
>
> thanks,
> slava revutchi
Take a look at the manual page:
-u username
Only update the record for the specified user. Utilities that op-
erate on a single user can use this option to avoid the overhead of
rebuilding the entire database.
Joe
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