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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!aaron From: Aaron.Roydhouse@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Aaron Roydhouse) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Bug with spwd.db (serious!) Net 0.9 Date: 16 Sep 1993 22:55:01 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <AARON.93Sep17105501@downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz> References: <1993Sep15.185036.9382@indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz In-reply-to: garbled@indirect.com's message of Wed, 15 Sep 1993 18:50:36 GMT ==> "Tim" == Tim Rightnour writes: Tim> getpwuid(): can't identify your account! syslog: spwd.db: Tim> inappropriate file type or format! I got this, and it was a mystery to me as well. Apparently the dbm format has changed so you will have to relink your binaries (tcsh etc.) to get them to work with the new format. Aaron. -- Aaron Roydhouse / Tel: +64 4 471-5328 Fax: +64 4 495-5232 Victoria University, NZ. / Mail: P.O. Box 11-704, Wellington, N.Z. aaron@comp.vuw.ac.nz / Quote: "Death: To stop sinning suddenly"