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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.
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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.
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