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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Sup kit for vanilla 0.8 users... Date: 7 Jul 1993 18:23:15 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 20 Message-ID: <21flth$iau@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil Imagine my surprise when I tried to run the sup that Chris so handily put up for anonymous FTP at sun-lamp, and then proceeded to get something on the order of 250 invalid /etc/spwd.db errors 8-0. It turns out that one of the first things that happened with NetBSD after the 0.8 release was a change to the db routines that make the old spwd.db inaccessible. I remember this from my rather spectacular system crash while I was toying with building the system with the current sources a while back. I took the liberty of FTPing the source for sup from sun-lamp, and recompiled them to use the old database format. I generated a new executable that will read the vanilla 0.8 passwd database structures without error now. It is available as the file supkit-0.8.tar.z in the pub directory here at hrd769.brooks.af.mil. If anyone is interested in putting this somewhere on sun-lamp, I certainly wouldn't mind :-)... -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX