Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/17767: /etc/group and comments Message-ID: <200004101920.MAA15531@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/17767; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: novikov@web2000.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/17767: /etc/group and comments Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:01:55 +0200 -On [20000403 12:01], root@web2000.ru (root@web2000.ru) wrote: > > Many programs e.g. proftpd asume /etc/group not to have any > comments and complain about malformed group file on startup. > >>How-To-Repeat: >>Fix: > > Remove comments from /etc/group It can also be argued otherwise that programs are supposed to ignore default comment characters from configuration files, such as the hash (#). -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; When Silence cries... Is it what I feel? Or is it what you really long to be..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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