[comp.unix.wizards] YIKES! Uucp broke! HELP!

raisch@Control.COM (Robert Raisch) (04/08/91)

Oh my GAWD!!

I went thru and cleaned up my passwd file, and changed the UID/GIDs for 
my regular users.  I did not touch any systems users, just the staff
and guests.

Now uucico dumps core, with no messages, no log entry, no .Admin/Log entry,
no NOTHING!!

My login looks like:
Ulogin:1234134141412:66:8:Unix Copy:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico

Where:	66=Unique UID of this user   and   8=/etc/group:uucp

The files in /usr/spool/uucppublic are:

total 130
drwxrwsrwt  2 uucp     uucp          512 Apr  8 12:18 .
drwxr-sr-x 13 bin      bin           512 Mar 18 06:50 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp     uucp            0 Feb  8  1990 .hushlogin
-r--------  1 uucp     uucp            0 Feb  8  1990 .rhosts
-rw-r--r--  1 Ulogin   uucp      8483248 Apr  8 12:18 core

This is nasty.  Anyone have any clever ideas?

(Oh, BTW, dbx says:

% dbx /usr/lib/uucp/uucico

warning: no symbols
program terminated by signal ABRT (abort)

And then I can only look at the assembly that barfed.  (Of course.))

Bewildered, /rr
-- 
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." -Lector

raisch@Control.COM (Robert Raisch) (04/11/91)

Ok, ok, here's the poop.

It was entirely my fault.  

Some time ago, I had the bright idea of including lines in my passwd file
like:
	noone:*:-1:-1:#######THIS IS A COMMENT LINE#####:/:

to seperate the various classes of users on this system.

It *used* to work on SunOS round about 3.something with no bad effects.
That does not seem to be the case anymore, though.

Even though other programs, like login, seem to work, uucico barfs at
the 'getpwnam' function.  <sigh>

I have removed the offending cruft from my passwd file and life is
good, once again.

Tanks to all who responded.
/rr
-- 
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." -Lector