Search Again: Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests From: Shawn Hogan Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 Time: 4:56:12 pm Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff wrote: > A little background. Every once in a while our passwd file on our UNIX > based mail server seems to disappear. The master password file is there, > just not the passwd file. We have narrowed it down to the fact that two > ssh requests try to run at the same time last night and thus locked the > file and "corrupted" the passwd file. So my question is this, the account > that caused the issue had two emails associated with it and they both tried > to request ssh sessions with our mail server at the same time. How do I get > the 2 emails to pause between requests so that this doesn't happen again? What exactly are they doing in the SSH session? If you are triggering a script of some sort, you may want to modify that script to take into account a locked file (with a lock file or something), then have the script pause for a few seconds and check again if it's locked... - Shawn ---------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Digital Point Solutions http://www.digitalpoint.com (858) 452-3696 --------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe or to search list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists/isp.html ---------------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests by Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff on Jul 1, 2003 at 7:59:59 am Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests by Shawn Hogan on Jul 1, 2003 at 4:56:12 pm Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests by Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff on Jul 3, 2003 at 9:07:24 am Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests by Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff on Jul 3, 2003 at 9:26:53 am Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests by Lewis Watson on Jul 3, 2003 at 11:46:04 am Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests by Shawn Hogan on Jul 3, 2003 at 7:11:23 pm