Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu> Cc: stable mailing list at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: passwd,send-pr,lprm broke in 3.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902221357290.2053-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <199902222159.PAA91741@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote: > I have cvsup'd a few times, I have remade world a few > times, I have made a few kernels, I have done mergemaster. The only > files I did not update with mergemaster were spwd.db and pwd.db, > since they were binary files. What is the proper way to regenerate > .db files such as these? Well, they are the password files that are build from /etc/master.passwd I'd just run vipw, save (to make sure it looks like you've changed something), and then exit, and all the password files should be rebuilt. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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