From: Bill Hassell (blhconsulting@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 13:14:52 EDT
Hi Dale, Jeff,
pwgr is the password hash daemon that is used to speed up searches through
the password file for tools like ls -l. In a password file with 10,000 users
(common in a college) these commands can get really slow since ls -l
actually
reads every line in the passwd file until a match is found for the user ID
number, then the user name is pulled and displayed as the owner.
The daemon cleans up a few of these sockets each time it runs but on a
system
with just a few dozen users, you can turn off the daemon AND remove the pwgr
directory /var/spool/sockets/pwgr (must do both). Stop the damon with:
/sbin/init.d/pwgr stop
Then, edit the config file in /etc/rc.config.d and turn off the option to
start
the daemon. No more socket files...
--
Best regards,
Bill Hassell
blhconsulting@mindspring.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl
> [mailto:hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl]On Behalf Of Jeff Kubler
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: Whittemore, Dale; hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
> Subject: [HPADM] Re: What is the /var/spool/sockets/pwgr directory?
>
>
> Dale,
> These are socket files used for some network related service. Don't think
> you need to be concerned about backing them up.
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> At 06:10 AM 7/7/2003 -0600, Whittemore, Dale wrote:
> >What is the /var/spool/sockets/pwgr directory used for?
> >I have several 11.0 systems that have this directory that fills up with 0
> >byte sized files that are named "clientnnnnn", the "n"'s are a
> sequence of
> >numbers. What creates these files?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Dale A. Whittemore
> >Computer Systems Analyst, Senior
> >Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
> >Denver, Colorado
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