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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Running pwd_mkdb on large servers Date: 3 Feb 1997 14:40:09 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5d4tc9$jiu@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <01bc1186$fa8f0ca0$321c13cf@psycho> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5872 "Brian" <brian@capecod.net> wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to shorten the amount of time it takes > to run pwd_mkdb on /etc/master.passwd .. It takes nearly a minute on a P200 > w/ 64mb RAM. This system (our mail server) is constantly getting changes > made to users and their passwords are changed occasionaly. But, with over > 8000 mail accounts on this server, occasional can be considered almost > every 10-15 minutes during the week. Guido van Roij once developed a solution to this under FreeBSD. Basically, the updates are only done only for that user that has just been changing. Naturally, it doesn't work for vipw(8), but it works for things like chpass(1) or passwd(1). Should be portable to BSD/OS. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j