Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!bacchus!matt From: matt@bacchus.esa.oz (Matt Atterbury) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 23:07:19 GMT References: Sender: matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au Organization: Expert Solutions Australia. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: rtb@cernapo.cern.ch's message of 14 Mar 91 14:18:07 GMT In article rtb@cernapo.cern.ch (Rainer Tobbicke) writes: I have got a problem trying to change my login shell with chsh (I'm running BSD): it says chsh: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner ... deleted ... Can anyone tell me if this incredibly unreliable and unfathomable piece of software (e.i. rgyd) is still used with SR10.3 ? I am sick to death having to play with 25 zillion arcane tools to just keep the bloody thing running! (it's a good idea - it just doesn't work). cheers ... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Atterbury [matt@bacchus.esa.oz] Expert Solutions Australia, Melbourne UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!matt@bacchus.esa.oz "klaatu barada nikto" or: ...!uunet!murtoa!bacchus.esa.oz!matt "consider this a divorce" ARPA: matt%bacchus.esa.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET "life? don't talk to me about life!"