Search Again: Re: passwd file issue and multiple ssh requests From: Dawn D. Pfaltzgraff Date: Thursday, July 3, 2003 Time: 9:26:53 am Does anyone have any perl script on how to wait for a lock file? At 10:05 AM 7/3/2003 -0600, you wrote: >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 >--------------------------------------------------- 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