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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!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Syslogd and pwd.db message? Date: 14 May 1997 09:04:03 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 11 Sender: mathnews@graves.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5lbrlj$l82@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3377129e.20057786@netnews.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40821 osas@worldnet.att.net (Tim White) writes: > I've been getting occasional error messages from syslogd about > pwd.db. Something like invalid argument. Could someone be trying > to access the passwd db thru syslogd? TIA We get these messages, and reckon that that are something to do with netscape ( we're using the BSDi version ). As far as I can make out they are harmless. David.