From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 17 8:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nova.eri.net (nova.eri.net [207.90.82.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DAA10E66 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@nova.eri.net) Received: from localhost (richard@localhost) by nova.eri.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA24406 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:58:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from richard@nova.eri.net) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:58:02 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Stanaford To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: File merging and databases.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought I would pass along a friendly reminder to those of you who might be on the verge of doing your first buildworld and installworld.. When you get the files merged.. make sure you rebuild your databases. The command is... pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd This is especially true when you mistakenly copy the new database files in to /etc and fail to keep your originals. In this case the command is mandatory becasue of additions to the password file of default users. Users such as 'bind.' If you merge those new users into /etc/passwd and do not rebuild the database, FreeBSD will not recognize them as valid users and cause certain programs that need those users in the passwd file to break. Just trying to prevent a few headaches out there.. Happy CVSUpping, -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message