From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 8 12:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (zmamail01.zma.compaq.com [161.114.64.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4081937C0AA for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.waite@compaq.com) Received: by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id D8196602; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:49:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from exctay-gh02.tay.cpqcorp.net (exctay-gh02.tay.cpqcorp.net [16.103.129.52]) by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF9060C; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:49:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by exctay-gh02.tay.cpqcorp.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:49:20 -0500 Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C8B@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> From: "Waite, Michael" To: 'Andrew Gallatin' Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:49:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes indeedy that worked. Sure would be nice if us lowly sysadmin slobs didn't have to remember that there needs to be nine ":"s at the end though. Not to whine too much but "the others" have a different number. ----Mike -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 3:41 PM To: Waite, Michael Cc: mjacob@feral.com; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message