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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!pagesat!indirect.com!garbled From: garbled@indirect.com (Tim Rightnour) Subject: Bug with spwd.db (serious!) Net 0.9 Message-ID: <1993Sep15.185036.9382@indirect.com> Sender: garbled@indirect.com (Tim Rightnour) Organization: Internet Direct Inc. -- (602) 274-0100 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 18:50:36 GMT Lines: 33 I am running NetBSD 0.9. I recently upgraded from net 0.8 just the way the nice readme file told me to. I intalled the base09, games, misc, distribution sets. My problem.. spwd.db is messed. Everytime i try to use a program that wants to access this database first it tells me that: getpwuid(): can't identify your account! syslog: spwd.db: inappropriate file type or format! My first thought was that the database was messed, so I used vipw, and pwd_mkdb to attempt to rebuild the database. No avail. Next I decided to grab BRAND NEW ones from the etc09.000 distribution, and install those.. then edit to my liking. I updated the database. No avail. This is not the only problem that plauges my system.. for some reason my crontab now reports that /etc/daily does not exist! for some derranged reason, cron no longer runs cronjobs.. thinking it was a change of format.. I intalled the new /var/cron/tabs/root file. It changed nothing. I now have a root account full of mail telling me that sh /etc/daily does not exist.. and yes.. it IS in the directory. I KNOW this is not normal.. will someone please help me.. I am running a 386-40 w/ 4megs 210megs WD help!