Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:49:18 -0500 From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> To: 'Andrew Gallatin' <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C8B@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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Yes indeedy that worked. Sure would be nice if us lowly sysadmin slobs didn't have to remember that there needs to be nine ":"s at the end though. Not to whine too much but "the others" have a different number. ----Mike -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 3:41 PM To: Waite, Michael Cc: mjacob@feral.com; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS Waite, Michael writes: > vipw outputs this: > > > /etc/pw.Xe8310: 19 Lines, 1004 characters. > vipw: rebuilding the database... > pwd_mkdb:corrupted entry > pwd_mkdb:at line #19 > pwd_mkdb:/etc/pw.Xe8310: Inappropriate file type or format > > Hows about them apples? > Never seen that before. > As I said this is the first time I have installed from the iso image. > The other two FreeBSD boxes that I have (alpha Xp1000a and DPW500au) don't > do this. > > -----Mike > > Yeah, I'm a moron, I gave you the shadowed entry. You actually want this entry in /etc/passwd. Doh! +::::::::: Sorry about that, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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