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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape on 2.1.(5/6): out of memory when sending mail Supersedes: <5fjh5i$pqg$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: 5 Mar 1997 17:56:17 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5fkc41$pqg$3@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <331C51C5.547F@grolier.Fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970222; 9000/819 HP-UX B.10.10] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36590 In <331C51C5.547F@grolier.Fr> Un L'Unique wrote: > >Hello, > I have a probleme with netscape 3 ( and 2 ) on FReeBSD 2.1.5 & >2.1.6: >When a user want to send mail netscape state for 'out of memory' . Of >course this NOT a memory >probleme. ( there are plenty of, and not an ulimit one as I can see) >Root user got absolutly no probleme. >I notice that when started as user, Netscape make an syslog message: >syslog: /etc/pwd.db: invalid argument. >No probleme when runing as root. >Any idea ? >Thanks It has been mentioned in this group (in the last few weeks), that running Netscape as root screws up something, so that other users can't use it any more. I don't know anything more about this, since I've never run Netscape as root - I'd never trust it that much. I don't know hom much this relates to your problem, though. Perhaps DejaNews would find this article. Doesn't the /etc/pwd.db exist on your system? Perhaps you can rebuild it somehow from /etc/passwd ? Bye, Philipp [I'm reposting this with Supersedes: because of a typing mistake :-)] -- -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- P. Mergenthaler, un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de | Wer halb gebildet, ist der Tel.: 0721/694532 | schoenste Narr. Klosterweg 28 / I609, 76131 Karlsruhe | (Weiss jemand, von wem das ist?) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ |