From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 13 03:52:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA11710 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 03:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from coal.nis.newscorp.com (mxa.newscorp.com [206.15.105.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA11529 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 03:50:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@multivac.narcissus.net) Received: from multivac.narcissus.net (ts1port1.port.net [207.38.248.1]) by coal.nis.newscorp.com (News Corp SMTP GW 1.1) with SMTP id GAA06003 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:51:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by multivac.narcissus.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA03171; Mon, 13 Oct 97 06:44:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:44:54 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: dwhite stumped Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I, too, have been seeing this. Does anyone know? Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:18:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "K. Marsh" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spwd.db error messages On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, K. Marsh wrote: > I've been getting an error message ever since I installed FreeBSD, and I > still haven't figured out where it's coming from. I must admit, it seems > obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Here's the message: > Oct 4 13:05:08 ken2 syslog: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument If you figure it out, tell me. My 2.2.1 box booted it out last month. I don't think it's related to syslog. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major