On 2/9/12, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:43 -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> On 2/8/12, don fisher <hdf3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > When I execute pwck to verify integrity of password files and received >> > the following: >> > >> > sudo pwck >> > user 'adm': directory '/var/adm' does not exist >> > user 'uucp': directory '/var/spool/uucp' does not exist >> > user 'gopher': directory '/var/gopher' does not exist >> > user 'avahi-autoipd': directory '/var/lib/avahi-autoipd' does not exist >> > user 'oprofile': directory '/home/oprofile' does not exist >> > user 'saslauth': directory '/var/empty/saslauth' does not exist >> > user 'pulse': directory '/var/run/pulse' does not exist >> > invalid password file entry >> > >> > How should this be fixed? >> > >> > Don >> > >> > -- >> > >> >> Hi >> >> I don't believe every user has a directory.. >> >> I think you are "Good to GO!" >> >> Marvin > > I don't know if you are good to go but when I run: sudo pwck > on my machine except the last entry is: > pwck: no changes > > instead of: invalid password file entry > > so that is the output that would worry me. It seems you have an invalid > entry in the passwd file. It would be nice if the program gave you a > hint which entry it is complaining about. > > -- > ======================================================================= > Of course you can't flap your arms and fly to the moon. After a while > you'd run out of air to push against. > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > HI I gave my answer based on three boxes I have they yield similar results. Not all users will have a directory. I stand by my answer.. YMMV. Marvin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
