From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 22 13:59:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A48911437 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:59:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10F3Ns-0005CT-00; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:59:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Wayne M. Barnes" Cc: stable mailing list at FreeBSD Subject: Re: passwd,send-pr,lprm broke in 3.1 In-Reply-To: <199902222159.PAA91741@barnes1.wustl.edu> 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 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