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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 1996 08:29:45 +1000 (EST)
From:      Richard J Uren <richard@thehub.com.au>
To:        Jason Lixfeld <carrera@idirect.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Craaaaaaash..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961123082609.249B-100000@smople.thehub.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961122103321.14299A-100000@hometown.idirect.com>

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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

> I think I broke soemthing! :)
> 
> Bootup:
> 
> karma sendmail[91]: KAA00087: SYSERR(UID1): Cannot exec
> /usr/lib/exec/mail.local
> 
> This message repeats itself, fluctuating between [95], [110], [111],
> [130], [139], [146], [154], [155], and [156] errors, aswell as fluctuation
> in KAA00087 to KAA00106, KAA00090, CAA00089, CAA00092, KAB00106, CAA01800.
> 
> I think this is all of them..  This is not very good, because I can only
> login as root.  if I try to login as a user, it tells me
> /usr/local/bin/tcsh: permission denied, and throws me back into a login
> prompt.  I checked the permissions:   -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 
> 
> Strange.. it just kicked out another error too:
> 
> karma sendmail[367]: /etc/pwd.db: permission denied.
> 
> Keep in mind that these messages are just going sick all down my
> terminal..  on whatever terminal I am on at the time..
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated! :)
> 

This happened (for the first time) last weekend on our main mail box.
Im not sure how this happened but rebuilding the pwd.db file fixed
things.  

Do a man pwd_mkdb for the details.

Cheers
Richard




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