From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 4 09:23:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01728 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 09:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from trinity.radio-do.de (fn@trinity.Radio-do.de [193.101.164.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01718 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 09:23:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by trinity.radio-do.de (8.7.6/CLIENT-1.2.7-i) via EUnet id SAA08376; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:23:14 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange syslog messagey References: <199703040935.LAA16987@shadows.aeon.net> From: Frank Nobis Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:23:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: mika ruohotie's message of Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:35:48 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.14/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "mika" == mika ruohotie writes: >> > Mar 3 13:39:40 trinity syslog: /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument >> I've seen this also. Do you have any chroot'ed daemons running? >> I suspect mika> my 2.1.7 does this too, no chroots... mika> and it does it only occasionally, i am trying to track down mika> when/why... No chroot here. I will enable accounting and try to catch one. I greped through some binaries. Programs like passwd, chfn etc. have a reference to /etc/pwd.db compiled in the binary. But the last changed timestamp of my passwd file is from Jan 28. Regards Frank -- Frank Nobis Email: PGP AVAILABLE Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ 44139 Dortmund Powered by FreeBSD Fax: +49 231 7213816