From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 12:46:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4DE37B416 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:46:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0NK8Kj02045; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:07:55 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , Bob Giesen , FBSD Questions Subject: Re: pw in script to create new user. Message-ID: <20020123120754.A1861@tao.thought.org> References: <004b01c1a30b$5fcb20c0$328dfea9@pegasus> <3.0.5.32.20020122134304.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020122134304.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com>; from jacks@sage-american.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:43:04PM -0600 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community 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 On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:43:04PM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > Joe: I ran #pw -D and no pw.conf was created (4.4-stable)....???? [[ .. ]] > > jacks@sage-american.com > Right on the pw -D. I poked around in the source and pw -D only kicks out the usage:\n and see what the author is trying to do. pw looks for "pw [foo]|[bar] help" to offer help. From what I see, it looks like this one needs either a rewrite or retirement. Foo:) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message