Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:01:35 -0700 From: "Todd 'Taco' Hansen" <taco@mad.scientist.com> To: benedict@echonyc.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dwhite stumped Message-ID: <344253EF.345BF651@mad.scientist.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971013064358.3160C-100000@multivac.narcissus.net>
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I get that error when I accidentally start two copies of netscape as the same user. Other times too but all were netscape related. You could alwyas remake the pwd db mkpwd? I think it helped once. -taco Snob Art Genre wrote: > > 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 <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> > Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> > To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> > 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 -- Todd Hansen, KD6YPS (Taco) taco@mad.scientist.com http://millenium.atcg.com/ "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive...it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it" - Declaration Of Independence
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