Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 06:17:26PM -0700, Tonnesen Steve wrote:
> If you change the passwd/group files before running the find, this
> wouldn't be a problem. It could cause some havoc if mail programs (for
> example) couldn't access their files for the few minutes it takes to run
> the find though. Stopping MTAs before running the find might alleviate
> that problem.
You would need to restart every daemon anyway as the current UID is stored as
number in the process.
cu
Torsten
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