From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 9:54:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641DB15087 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11T6hD-0000qK-00; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:53:43 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: slava Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd taking too long In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:41:21 +0300." Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:53:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3243.937846423@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:41:21 +0300, slava wrote: > 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? It would help to know how you're using pwd_mkdb. Quite often, if you're just changing the information for one user, you can use pwd_mkdb's -u option to speed things up. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message