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| Steve Morley 2004-01-23, 5:02 pm |
| Hi All,
We're running our NIS master on a SPARC and every once in a while
I get this error in /var/adm/messages:
Sep 11 12:19:26 nis passwd[8885]: invalid name field: "
I'm pretty sure the 8885 (as it's different each time) is the PID of the
YP request at the time of the error, just can't figure out what line has the
error, or what I need to search for, to narrow it down.
It only happens a couple of times a day, and I know the YP push happens
more frequently than that, I'm wondering if it's whenever this user logs
into the system (or attempts to).
I've done searches in the passwd file on the stuff I could think of, like
slashes,
quotes, etc... But nothing wrong turns up.
It's SunOS 4.1.4
TIA
Steve
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| Andreas Kahari 2004-01-23, 5:02 pm |
| In article
< 5bbd65379351f55411212d4728f2172e@grapevi
ne.islandnet.com>,
Steve Morley wrote:quote:
> Hi All,
>
> We're running our NIS master on a SPARC and every once in a while
> I get this error in /var/adm/messages:
>
> Sep 11 12:19:26 nis passwd[8885]: invalid name field: "
[cut]quote:
> It only happens a couple of times a day, and I know the YP push happens
> more frequently than that, I'm wondering if it's whenever this user logs
> into the system (or attempts to).
>
> I've done searches in the passwd file on the stuff I could think of, like
> slashes,
> quotes, etc... But nothing wrong turns up.
>
> It's SunOS 4.1.4
I googled for "invalid name field" and came up with a message
from the sunmanagers list (from 1996). Does this help you?
http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1996-01/msg00103.html
--
Andreas Kähäri
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| Steve Morley 2004-01-23, 5:02 pm |
| Found it!
using pwchk I was able to find a blank line in the passwd file.
Thanx again.
Steve
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