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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: efutch@nyct.net (Eric Futch) Subject: pwd.db Hosed! (More than once) X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate X-Nntp-Posting-User: efutch Reply-To: efutch@nyct.net Message-ID: <E94pyK.HEA@nonexistent.com> X-Trace: 861863275/15303 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: efutch.nyct.net Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:27:44 GMT Lines: 15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39652 Since I've been using 2.1.7.1-RELEASE and now 2.2.1-RELEASE... my /etc/pwd.db file has gotten trashed several times. So far I've tried starting in single-user mode and rebuilding the databases with 'pwd_mkdb master.passwd' but.. no such luck... it still says /etc/pwd.db is corrupt or I don't have access to it (as root)... I've just been reinstalling the bin dist but I have to add all the users over again.. I noticed right before it gets trashed that the file had just become one big line... the newline got stripped or something... all I had running at the time was ircd and eggdrop (not running as root) ... Any ideas as to what causes this? -- Eric Futch efutch@nyct.net http://www.nyct.net http://www.nyct.net/~efutch