Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-27 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello > - force the cache to be flushed after making changes to original. > - write changes via cache. > (+any other method I have missed) unfortunally it even hasn't got a manpage ! Maybe libc6-doc has some information about it. > useradd is also a Debian program: Yes. I meant adduser is a wrap

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-26 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:56:42AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > useradd is also a Debian program: > > [549] [snoopy:bam] ~/tmp >dpkg -S /usr/sbin/useradd > passwd: /usr/sbin/useradd > > However, perhaps its use is now obsolete. It probably wouldn't be > any better though in this case. Um.. adduser

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-26 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:11:27AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > On Sat, 25.09.99 10:21 +1000, Brian May wrote: > > If useradd is the wrong program to use (thats my guess), then the same > > functionality should (IMHO) be moved to adduser. That way you can > > configure the user with

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-26 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On Sat, 25.09.99 10:21 +1000, Brian May wrote: > If useradd is the wrong program to use (thats my guess), then the same > functionality should (IMHO) be moved to adduser. That way you can > configure the user with one program call, and not worry about usermod. Oh no ! You missed the point !

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-25 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:50:01PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > I have a big problem with this new glibc2 "nscd" program. This program > seems to be a cache for the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow: > > -=(/home/ch/debian/DOC)# adduser --system mysql > Adding system user mysql... > Ad

nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-24 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I have a big problem with this new glibc2 "nscd" program. This program seems to be a cache for the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow: -=(/home/ch/debian/DOC)# adduser --system mysql Adding system user mysql... Adding new user mysql (100) with group nogroup. Home directory /home/mysql already ex