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From: pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Corrupted /etc/passwd, /etc/org, /etc/group
Message-ID: <4aaefe67.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 29 May 90 15:24:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: apollo.4aaefe67.20b6d
References: <1990May25.185740.5797@ccs.carleton.ca>
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Reply-To: pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1990May25.185740.5797@ccs.carleton.ca>,
holtz@cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz) writes:
|> Sometime between 15:00 PM yesterday aft (thursday) and this morning,
/etc/passwd
|> disappeared.  If you try to read it from the DM, you get:
|> 
|>    (CV) /etc/passwd - Entry not found from (network computing system
/ Registry Server)
|> 

We recently discovered this problem with the sr10.2 registry servers.
The problem is an incorrect boundary condition check when producing the
dynamic view of the /etc/{passwd,group,org} files.  It occurs when there
are 16, 528, 1040, ... lines in any of these files.

A simple work around is to simply add (or delete) a dummy account/group/org
to prevent the files from having the number of lines that produce the error
case.

                    -- Joe Pato
                       Hewlett Packard Company
                       pato@apollo.hp.com