Re: Strange error from vipw

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1104231832340.224%quicky.whooppee.com@localhost>,
Paul Goyette  <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
>I'm trying to add a user to my systems, and having a little bit of a 
>problem.
>
>Four out of five systems went fine, but the last one is reporting an 
>error:
>
>       vipw: pwd_mkdb exited with static 1
>       re-edit the password file? [y]:
>
>But it's not very clear what "static 1" means, nor is there any clue to 
>help me fix the problem.

I just fixed the error message. pwd_mkdb logs to syslog when invoked
from vipw, check there.

christos