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From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape on 2.1.(5/6): out of memory when sending mail
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Date: 5 Mar 1997 17:56:17 GMT
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In <331C51C5.547F@grolier.Fr> Un L'Unique wrote:
> 
>Hello,

>      I have a probleme with netscape 3 ( and 2 ) on FReeBSD 2.1.5 &
>2.1.6:

>When a user want to send mail netscape state for 'out of memory' . Of
>course this NOT a memory
>probleme. ( there are plenty of, and not an ulimit one as I can see)
>Root  user got absolutly no probleme.

>I notice that when started as user, Netscape make an syslog message:
>syslog: /etc/pwd.db:  invalid argument.

>No probleme when runing as root.

>Any idea ?

>Thanks
It has been mentioned in this group (in the last few weeks), that running
Netscape as root screws up something, so that other users can't use
it any more. I don't know anything more about this, since I've never
run Netscape as root - I'd never trust it that much.
I don't know hom much this relates to your problem, though.
Perhaps DejaNews would find this article.
Doesn't the /etc/pwd.db exist on your system? Perhaps you
can rebuild it somehow from /etc/passwd ?

Bye, Philipp

[I'm reposting this with Supersedes:  because of a typing mistake :-)]
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