From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 18 0:50:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C84150B3 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11oNGm-00044E-00; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:50:20 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Vadim Belman Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb max uid warning. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:46:20 +0200." <15569.942914780@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:50:19 +0200 Message-ID: <15637.942915019@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:46:20 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > This code is not obsolete. Bruce Evans brought to my attention at least > two problem areas: IDs used by NFS, and IDs used by the linuxulator. Bleh, I didn't finish my message. :-( I recently added to pwd_mkdb(8) in CURRENT, an option (-q) to suppress warnings about large IDs. The interesting revisions are: rev 1.11 pw_scan.c rev 1.2 pw_scan.h rev 1.13 pwd_mkdb.8 rev 1.33 pwd_mkdb.c I'm not sure whether this will be merged to the STABLE branch. I certainly can't see any reason why it shouldn't be. Just remember, should you choose to use this option, that it doesn't resolve the issues surrounding large IDs; it just allows you to silence the warnings if you don't care about the issues. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message