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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1513 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6794 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: /etc/spwd.db, /dev/klog, and dmesg Message-ID: <CGF2oo.D8F@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 06:14:48 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 23 Hi, I am running FreeBSD-1.0 Release, and I have some minor but annoying problems. Very often when I start up X, I got the following messages : syslogd: klog: Bad address syslog: /etc/spwd.db: Inappropriate file type or format And once this has happened, dmesg will no longer work, and it always gives me : dmesg: magic number incorrect I just wonder whether or not any of the following programs do update /etc/spwd.db (secure password db), xterm, tcsh, xbiff, xeyes, and xclock, as I did run some old compiled programs on 386bsd using shared lib package. I kept those programs so as to save memory and disk space. The problem sounds to me like the incompatible db file format for secure passwd, am I right ? Thanks in advance and email replies please. - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au