Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710122412.2887A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710093114.19286C-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if seding message to correct list. But after upgrade from > FBSD 2.2.2 to FBSD 2.2.6-stable something moved. In my /etc/passwd file > there are lots of coments "#" and getpwent() return 0 after read this > line. I have some scripts in perl that stops when getpwent() return 0. > In FBSD 2.2.2 when getpwent() returned 0 meant end of file /etc/passwd. I hope you realize that /etc/passwd isn't used for anything. All users should be listed in /etc/master.passwd. You should used vipw to edit /etc/master.passwd Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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