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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Syslogd and pwd.db message?
Date: 14 May 1997 09:04:03 +0100
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osas@worldnet.att.net (Tim White) writes:

>  I've been getting occasional error messages from syslogd about
> pwd.db. Something like invalid argument.  Could someone be trying
> to access the passwd db thru syslogd? TIA

We get these messages, and reckon that that are something
to do with netscape ( we're using the BSDi version ). As
far as I can make out they are harmless.

	David.