Quoting Larry Holish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box. I have had > this problem > > for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called. I have > searched > > archives, looked at the /etc/passwd to see if it may be corrupt. I > have > > password shadowing turned on and cannot find any problems in the > shadow files. > > > > Please help me. I need some ideas on were to look next for this > problem. > > Have you tried the /usr/sbin/pwck command? This command verifies the > integrity of the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. See the manpage > for > more info. > > -- > Larry Holish > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- Here is the output from pwck. It looks like I just have a few missing home directories for these accounts.
tigger:/etc# pwck 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 cyrus: directory /var/spool/cyrus does not exist pwck: no changes -- Bill C.R.E.A.M. Dark Angel
