From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 13 09:30:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04513 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@1Cust189.tnt1.manassas.va.da.uu.net [153.37.113.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04502 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) id MAA03241; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:29:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19971013122947.33887@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:29:47 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: benedict@echonyc.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dwhite stumped Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 06:44:54AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 06:44:54AM -0400, Snob Art Genre wrote: > I, too, have been seeing this. Does anyone know? > > > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > > > > > Here's the message: > > Oct 4 13:05:08 ken2 syslog: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument I got this a while back, and it turns out my spwd.db was corrupted. I used pwd_mkdb to rebuild it, and it went away. Try that and see what happens.. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code