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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:38:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: message in syslog
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960925203742.647K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199609252359.BAA07688@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

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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




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