[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Strange WP error

wollman@SADYE.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman) (03/24/91)

Does anybody have an idea what the following error, from makeboth,
is supposed to mean:

Error reading one of the password files, user ``'': Error number 0.

Makeboth then returns a status of 101.

-GAWollman

gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) (03/26/91)

Excerpts from misc: 23-Mar-91 Strange WP error Garrett Wollman@griffin. (209)

> Does anybody have an idea what the following error, from makeboth,
> is supposed to mean:

> Error reading one of the password files, user ``'': Error number 0.


For some unknown reason makeboth came up against a passwd entry that had
no pw_name value and it hadn't yet reached the end of the file.  The
return value of 101 probably came from make.