Re: New!!!: Base-passwd 2.0

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:16:20 EST Jean Pierre LeJacq 
(jplejacq@quoininc.com) wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:49:31 +0200 Lars Wirzenius (liw@iki.fi) wrote:
> > 
> > > Philippe Troin:
> > > > Is there a debian standard way of [ locking /etc/passwd and friends ] ?
> > 
> > Let's do it the same way that we lock the mailboxes then ?
> > If I remember right, it consists in:
> >   1) Create a dummy file in the same directory
> >   2) Hardlink it to the local file (/etc/passwd.lock and /etc/group.lock, 
> >      possibly /etc/shadow.lock)
> >   3) Change your stuff...
> >   4) Unlink the tmpfile and the dummy file.
>
> I believe that FHS reguires lock files to go into /var/lock.
> Is there any reason not to follow their lead?

I thought only device lock would go into /var/lock...
Daniel, can you tell us more about this ?
I think mailbox locks are placed in the /var/spool/mail directory right ?

Phil.



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