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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb on 2.0 eventually core dumps
To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner)
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:40:51 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <9507011719.AA06693@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jul 1, 95 10:19:29 am
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Marty Leisner stands accused of saying:
> 
> 
> 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?

Yes, you're using it.  vipw works just fine - your problem is either 
memory hardware or some bizarre mismatch due to you corrupting the
password files.  You may want to dig up a fresh set (either off the CD
or from some kind soul; you'll want a copy of master.passwd and pwd.db,
run vipw to cread passwd.

> 2) is there a way to automate the boot procedure (short of
> rebuilding the kernel?)

2.0 or 2.0.5?  2.0.5 reads and saves the kernel changes for you.

> 3) is there a way to boot from dos (seems pretty simple...)

fbsdboot, iirc.

> 4) is there an implementation of strace/trace for freebsd

ktrace may do what you want; how about something more than a name?

> marty		leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com   

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