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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.233.85.167!shore!brianb From: brianb@shore.net (Brian Beaulieu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Changing the chpass and passwd cache size (bpatch) Date: 4 Feb 1997 01:24:17 GMT Organization: Shore.Net; a service of Eco Software, Inc. (info@shore.net) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5d6341$h90@fridge-nf0.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.shore.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5962 Hello, Can someone give me the correct syntax for changing the cache size for chpass and passwd? It was mentioned in the pwd_mkdb(8) man page that it will dramatically increase performance on large passwd file, and it has truly done so (turning a 60 second process into 10 seconds). I have tried a few different variations with bpatch, but none work.. Thanks Brian brian@capecod.net