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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] "spwd.db - Inappropriate file type or format" error Message-ID: <CHF0MJ.9H0@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Keywords: netbsd, spwd.db, error Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <2dkrgl$bi@cae.cad.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 16:03:54 GMT Lines: 11 In article <2dkrgl$bi@cae.cad.gatech.edu> dgal@cad.gatech.edu (Damon Gallaty) writes: >I'm getting the error "spwd.db - Inappropriate file type or format" Do you still have some programs that were compiled under 0.8 or earlier? (Bash is a likely candidate.) The passwd database format changed in 0.9, and programs compiled with the old libraries will produce these messages. Solution - recompile anything that uses getpwent() or similar. -- Richard --