[17747] in Athena Bugs
Re: /etc/group getting lost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Apr 10 17:20:36 2000
Message-Id: <200004102120.RAA17690@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Tom Sylla <tsylla@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:48:18 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:20:29 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi. Unfortunately, I don't think we know what causes this problem,
and looking at a machine after it loses its group file isn't very
informative. Public workstations restore their group file from /srvd
at boot time, so it's most likely not a problem with unclean
shutdowns.
What we can do is make public workstations restore their group files
from /srvd at reactivate time, which they do not appear to do now.
I'll make that happen at least for 8.4.
