From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 20:38:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA18052 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18002 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00742; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:38:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Robert Eckardt cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: message in syslog In-Reply-To: <199609252359.BAA07688@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Robert Eckardt wrote: > The message in /etc/message says: > Sep 25 15:26:55 gluon syslog: /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument > Sep 25 15:26:57 gluon last message repeated 8 times > > Has anyone an idea which causes this (which program, lib) ? syslog itself. Try running 'vipw', making some change, then :wq'ing it and see if pwd_mkdb dies on something. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major