Re: [mv] to many users in a group

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Victor Nolton (venom@inna.net):
> 
> I dont know if this is a configuration problem. right now IT ain't broke
> but I have to mess with it.
> 
> i get a report that "mvend is in too many groups, using first 16"
> i have to su/sudo into the user mvend in order to do things cause i dont
> have the password. but I have seen no mention of this in the archives.
> 
> the problem is. I added a 16th and 17th catalog tonight. NOW minivend
> can't read the files in the 17th catalog. I dont want to chmod to many
> files to make it so they can be read.
> 
> but minivend is reporting it can't read the .asc files and the special
> cached files. this is to be expected if the mvend is not allowed to read
> the other users files.
> 
> anyone else have this problem? or is it recommended I just change
> minivend's password and  just login and try it.
> 

I run multiple Minivend servers in this instance, with user IDs that
are the same, but with different names:

mvd1:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 1:/usr/local/minivend/m1:/bin/tcsh
mvd2:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 2:/usr/local/minivend/m2:/bin/tcsh
mvd3:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 3:/usr/local/minivend/m3:/bin/tcsh
mvd4:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 4:/usr/local/minivend/m4:/bin/tcsh
mvd5:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 5:/usr/local/minivend/m5:/bin/tcsh
mvd6:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 6:/usr/local/minivend/m6:/bin/tcsh
mvd7:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 7:/usr/local/minivend/m7:/bin/tcsh
mvd8:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 8:/usr/local/minivend/m8:/bin/tcsh
mvd9:x:400:400:Minivend daemon 9:/usr/local/minivend/m9:/bin/tcsh

Then I place the different daemons in different user groups, and
start them as that user ID with a script. This script uses INET
mode only, but could easily be modified.

#!/bin/sh

BASEDIR=/usr/local/minivend

SERVERS="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"

if test -n "$1"
then
        SERVERS="$1"
fi

for i in $SERVERS
do

        MINIVEND_ROOT=$BASEDIR/m$i
        echo MINIVEND_ROOT=$MINIVEND_ROOT
        MINIVEND_STORABLE=0
        if test -f $MINIVEND_ROOT/.storable
        then
                MINIVEND_STORABLE=1
                export MINIVEND_STORABLE
        fi
        if test -f $MINIVEND_ROOT/_uid
        then
                MINIVEND_UID=`cat $MINIVEND_ROOT/_uid`
        elif test -f $MINIVEND_ROOT/.uid
        then
                MINIVEND_UID=`cat $MINIVEND_ROOT/_uid`
	else
		echo Cannot determine UID.
		exit 2
        fi
        echo "Using user -$MINIVEND_UID-"
        export MINIVEND_ROOT
        if test -f $MINIVEND_ROOT/bin/restart_inet
        then 
                CMD=$MINIVEND_ROOT/bin/restart_inet
        else
                CMD="$MINIVEND_ROOT/bin/minivend -restart"
        fi
        if test `whoami` = root
        then
                echo I am root
                su -c "$CMD" $MINIVEND_UID
        else
                $CMD
        fi

done

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