Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 00:56:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990801005342.19337B-100000@heidi.plazza.it> In-Reply-To: <69079.933455100@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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> > I'd be in favor of adding a /etc/pwd_mkdb.conf or some similar > > file. ... > While warnings and error messages should give me enough information > to address a problem efficiently (something on the wishlist of any > Wintendo administrator), once I know there is more than zero potentially > problematic entries, I can used cat, awk and sh to find all the culprits > if I want to. What we are looking at is a warning for potential problems with legacy tools. Yet another configuration file is not going to make our life any easier. What Sheldon proposed was to get rid of n-1 messages out of n. Maybe there is a good reason to have a config file, but this does not sound like one. Nick -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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