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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:59:14 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
Subject:   passwd,send-pr,lprm broke in 3.1
Message-ID:  <199902222159.PAA91741@barnes1.wustl.edu>

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Dear Chris Costello and other Stabilizers

Re: send-pr, passwd and lprm just hang on 3.1 stable upgraded from 2.2.8.

    The above commands just hang and do nothing, still.

    You asked if I had the latest sh.

    I should have the latest everything. 

    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?

    I even went back and did a 'make upgrade', even though it
should have been redundant to other makes.  No improvements to
the problem.  Not that there haven't been improvements to my system.
I really like the new functionality of 3.1.  

    Since I last wrote, I have found another command that hangs
and does nothing: lprm (in addition to my original problems passwd
and send-pr).

    If I enter illegal option -H to passwd and lprm, they come
back immediately (properly) with usage: instructions.

    But if I use these commands properly, they just do nothing.

    Any ideas what to try?

Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D.                        wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
Biochemistry Dept. 8231
Washington Univ. Medical School               314.362.3351  fax 7183
660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
          http://barnes1.wustl.edu       Just plain Taq is old tech anymore.


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