From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 14 11:12:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16260 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16247 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19195; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:12:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA09904; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:33:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809141033.LAA09904@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Harold Gutch cc: Brian Somers , The Subject: Re: Missing CVS $Id strings In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:53:29 +0200." <19980914015329.18217@foobar.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:33:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:14:51AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > Here's what I did: > > > [...] > > > /etc/passwd No documented comment chars > > >From the passwd(5) manpage: > Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#) are com- > ments, and are ignored. Blank lines which consist only of spaces, tabs > or newlines are also ignored. > > Note that the last I remember is that this is incorrect in > -STABLE (see some -stable archive for more on this topic, the > subject was "Finger and getpwent"). This should be submitted as a bug. Try putting a line beginning with ``#'' in your passwd via ``vipw'' on current.... > -- > bye, logix > > Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. > Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message