Thanks for your replies. On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:30:43 +1300 Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> When was the last time you fscked the partition? Your reply had me go fsck both my partitions, / and /home. The / partition had no errors, but the /home partition had a few, which could account for about 1% of the 12187 files reported by tiger. The other 99% are still unaccounted for, though. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:19:05 -0600 (CST) Mike Barushok wrote: > It might be that something corrupted the /etc/passwd file > in such a way that one or more entries were either not > 'readable' or had a duplicate entry. You might want to try > running pwck. # pwck -r user news: directory /var/spool/news does not exist user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist user majordom: directory /usr/lib/majordomo does not exist user postgres: directory /var/lib/postgres does not exist user msql: directory /var/lib/msql does not exist user list: directory /var/list does not exist user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats/gnats-db does not exist user telnetd: directory /usr/lib/telnetd does not exist user mysql: directory /var/lib/mysql does not exist pwck: no changes Although I'd rather not get any messages from any checking program, these seem to be harmless and unrelated to the issue. Visual inspection of passwd and shadow doesn't help, both look OK. Any more thoughts? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
