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тАО02-22-2010 09:08 AM
тАО02-22-2010 09:08 AM
thousands ~8000 sockets in this directory, with
new ones being created every minute.
Are these associated with the /usr/sbin/pwgrd
process?
Can I start deleting these at will?
We do have an x.25 interface that is failing, it might be related....
I'd like to remove them all, but dont want the
machine and any "good" processes to start
dieing.
Solved! Go to Solution.
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тАО02-22-2010 09:40 AM
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тАО02-22-2010 09:57 AM
тАО02-22-2010 09:57 AM
Re: Thousands of sockets in /var/spool/sockets/pwgr
of administrators, including me.
Does performance degrade of a session if
the socket isn't there?
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тАО02-22-2010 10:06 AM
тАО02-22-2010 10:06 AM
Re: Thousands of sockets in /var/spool/sockets/pwgr
which call getpwuid(). Would those processes
still work ok if I turned off pwgr?
Thanks
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тАО02-22-2010 11:51 AM
тАО02-22-2010 11:51 AM
Re: Thousands of sockets in /var/spool/sockets/pwgr
/sbin/init.d/pwgr stop
You can then disable pwgrd in /etc/rc.config.d by editing the file pwgr and turning off the daemon statup:
change PWGR=1 to PWGR=0
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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тАО02-22-2010 12:13 PM
тАО02-22-2010 12:13 PM
Re: Thousands of sockets in /var/spool/sockets/pwgr
I noticed the same symptom as you some time ago when I turned off the 'pwgrd' daemon by setting 'PWGR=0' in '/etc/rc/config.d/pwgr'.
It seems that the 'pwgrd' daemon cleans up old sockets in '/var/spool/sockets/pwgr' so not running it causes these files to accumulate. While as socket files these don't consume much disk space, they are needless overhead.
I suggest turning the daemon on.
Regards!
...JRF...