From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 6:37:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822A437B40F for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.32 #4) id 15ZYBd-00011o-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:36:49 +0300 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:36:49 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: One for the script gurus Message-ID: <20010822163649.B98728@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 4:34PM up 12 days, 2:03, 4 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.12, 0.09 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You have your /etc/passwd file and from it you want to create a home directory for every user in it. I am imagining how to extract that info from the file and use it to feed some script that would do what I want. I am imagining some emergency situation where my /home tape backup has goofed. I leave it you to, please. Thanks. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.=20 --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7g7Vxn7LIsuxjem8RAlPzAJ9L6jg63uyfKrPAfUS1WxdWMmi+1ACgrXVB ZmveiITEZlSvSeO8S9mjnVk= =IeQc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message