From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 10 12:20: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AA237B717 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA15531; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004101920.MAA15531@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: kern/17767: /etc/group and comments Reply-To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/17767; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: novikov@web2000.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/17767: /etc/group and comments Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:01:55 +0200 -On [20000403 12:01], root@web2000.ru (root@web2000.ru) wrote: > > Many programs e.g. proftpd asume /etc/group not to have any > comments and complain about malformed group file on startup. > >>How-To-Repeat: >>Fix: > > Remove comments from /etc/group It can also be argued otherwise that programs are supposed to ignore default comment characters from configuration files, such as the hash (#). -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project When Silence cries... Is it what I feel? Or is it what you really long to be..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message