From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 4 01:38:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA10723 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA10696 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:38:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bsdhack@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) id LAA16987; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:35:48 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199703040935.LAA16987@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: strange syslog messagey In-Reply-To: <10070.857466342@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at "Mar 4, 97 10:05:42 am" To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:35:48 +0200 (EET) Cc: fn@radio-do.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Mar 3 13:39:40 trinity syslog: /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument > I've seen this also. Do you have any chroot'ed daemons running? I suspect my 2.1.7 does this too, no chroots... and it does it only occasionally, i am trying to track down when/why... mickey