Search Again: Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests From: Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff Date: Thursday, July 3, 2003 Time: 9:07:24 am The scripts are just running a modification script to "hold" the emails, the problem is in these accounts there is more than one email and it's trying to do them at the same time. There is no way for Optigold to know to only send one session at a time to a server? Dawn At 04:55 PM 7/1/2003 -0700, you wrote: >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 >--------------------------------------------------- Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff System Administrator Premier Systems -plains.net ddpfz@plains.net (970-848-0475) --------------------------------------------------- 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