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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!bsdtest.ensta.fr!bouyer From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Bug with spwd.db (serious!) Net 0.9 Date: 17 Sep 1993 11:52:14 GMT Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <27c8de$9dt@homea.ensta.fr> References: <1993Sep15.185036.9382@indirect.com> <2675@hcshh.hcs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr In article <2675@hcshh.hcs.de>, hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: |> In <1993Sep15.185036.9382@indirect.com> garbled@indirect.com (Tim Rightnour) writes: |> |> >syslog: spwd.db: inappropriate file type or format! |> |> got this when i tried to run a bash which was compiled on a 386bsd 0.1 + pk |> system. after a recompile on the target system it went away. |> The format of the passwd database on NetBSD 0.9 has changed from NetBSD 0.8 or 386bsd 0.1. You will have to recompile all the applications which use the passwd databases (which use the fuctions getpw*()) -- Manuel Bouyer email: bouyer@ensta.fr --