From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 10:16:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA25635 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:16:36 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA25629 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:16:35 -0700 Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.252.21.73]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14613(4)>; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:15:50 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02650; Sat, 1 Jul 95 13:15:38 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06693; Sat, 1 Jul 95 13:19:29 EDT Message-Id: <9507011719.AA06693@gnu.mc.xerox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: pwd_mkdb on 2.0 eventually core dumps Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 10:19:29 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Well, I got a freebsd system up and running...(I need to boot with -c, disable sio0 and convert ed1 to irq 4.) To make an account, I was to run vipw (looks like a lot of stuff is being done under the hood) but after I run vipw I get on the console: pid 110: pwd_mkdb: uid 0: exited on signal 11 and my new account doesn't take... 1) is there a simple way to add an account? 2) is there a way to automate the boot procedure (short of rebuilding the kernel?) 3) is there a way to boot from dos (seems pretty simple...) 4) is there an implementation of strace/trace for freebsd marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001