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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.lava.net!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!sirius.cs.pdx.edu!daver From: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:39:56 GMT Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4unq9c$mv6@walt.ee.pdx.edu> References: <4u5vgt$m5c@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <4ug5ts$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) wrote: : > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 and am concerned because the : > following errors appear each day when the daily report : > is run: : > : > Aug 3 10:30:01 machine su: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied : Make sure /etc/pwd.db is mode 0644 (and owned by root, of course). I did this but it didn't solve the problem. I solved the problem by booting the installation disk and using the Update menu to re-load the bin distribution. This seemed to solve the problem but I have no idea why... BTW, this problem started when I loaded the bash package. Dave daver@cs.pdx.edu