Re: Strange error from vipw

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> 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.

Yes, thanks!

I looked a bit further, and found that there was a zero-length file in
/etc/pwd.db.tmp - I removed that file and everything is well now.

I have no clue how that file got there, but the problem is gone and I'm 
happy.  :)



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