On Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:39:01 -0800,
bpacula@value.net (Brian N. Pacula) wrote:
> What exactly is the format for /etc/passwd entries? The preexisting users
> in the NetBSD installation seem to have two more fields than the example
> given by my reference books.

man 5 passwd

> This confusion may be a part of the second question I had - if I have a
> file owned by user1, and if, as root, I chown that file so that it's
> owned by user2, it STILL is listed as being owned by user1. What's going
> on there?

Exactly what did you do?  Did you do it as root?  BSD does not allow
non-root users to change the ownership of files.

> Finally, and I already asked this, but when I run the PPP connect script
> from the ppp-setup kit, it dials, and connects, but I get three "Fatal
> signal 11" messages and PPP remains down. Does anyone know what might be
> going wrong?

Probably you are getting these "three" segfaults because you are
logged in as root, aren't you?  I think the real signal 11 is sent
just once.  Except that, no idea.  First we'd need to know which
process is the one getting the signal.  Whether chat or pppd.

> And, do /etc/hosts and /etc/myname need to be changed for a
> PPP connection?

Not really.  You could change them if you really like to, though.

Ken