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From: mmuegel@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Michael Muegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: reducing the delay between edrgy and getpwuid() etc ...
Message-ID: <384@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: 19 Feb 91 18:59:46 GMT
References: <1093@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Organization: Cellular Infrastructure Group, Motorola, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas
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In article <1093@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au writes:
>My problem is currently that after I've called the make-an-account call, and
>edrgy's replied with a prompt indicating all is happiness, I often won't be
>able to successfully do a getpwuid() or getpwnam() on said account for quite
>a while (typically about a minute). Currently I sit in a loop polling
>getpwuid() and sleeping for 10 seconds until it works, so that the program
>can continue on its way and make home directories and set ownership, etc.

In my Perl scripts I wrote for our admins I simply parse edrgy -v -a login
output. I know better than to even try to trust the /etc/passwd file ;-).
We have a fairly large network (~130) and it seems to take an unberably long
time for the passwd file to reflect the true state of the registry.

Thats my two and a half cents worth,
-Mike

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