From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 8 12:42:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E2937C0DF for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24908; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:42:00 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA86618; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:41:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:41:29 -0500 (EST) To: "Waite, Michael" Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS In-Reply-To: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C82@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C82@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14534.47768.437927.852835@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Waite, Michael writes: > vipw outputs this: > > > /etc/pw.Xe8310: 19 Lines, 1004 characters. > vipw: rebuilding the database... > pwd_mkdb:corrupted entry > pwd_mkdb:at line #19 > pwd_mkdb:/etc/pw.Xe8310: Inappropriate file type or format > > Hows about them apples? > Never seen that before. > As I said this is the first time I have installed from the iso image. > The other two FreeBSD boxes that I have (alpha Xp1000a and DPW500au) don't > do this. > > -----Mike > > Yeah, I'm a moron, I gave you the shadowed entry. You actually want this entry in /etc/passwd. Doh! +::::::::: Sorry about that, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message