Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:19:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> Cc: "'Andrew Gallatin'" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NIS Message-ID: <200003082119.NAA00569@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:48:34 EST." <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C82@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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> vipw outputs this: > > > /etc/pw.Xe8310: 19 Lines, 1004 characters. > vipw: rebuilding the database... > pwd_mkdb:corrupted entry > pwd_mkdb:at line #19 > pwd_mkdb:/etc/pw.Xe8310: Inappropriate file type or format > > Hows about them apples? > Never seen that before. It means you've got a typo in the file; typically you're trying to use passwd format where you're actually editing master.passwd, which has two more fields (and thus you need two more colons). Personally, I'm not so keen on the "everything has to be an errno error" style. The above diagnostic could trivially be "entry <blah> misformatted" or something much more helpful. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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