Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 PostgreSQL and PL/Python

2008-08-19 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... It looks empty to me. It wasn't: $ tnef --save-body winmail.dat $ ls -l message.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 mk itgroup 3107 Aug 19 08:08 message.rtf tnef is from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/ Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg

[rhelv5-list] Accidentally clobbering system accounts using script to update /etc/passwd

2008-08-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi, I'm using a perl script to read a file from AFS with a list of users in passwd format and append those users to /etc/passwd. The problem is that about once every few months, the systems account, like root, vanish from the passwd file, but the backup passwd file, passwd- where I store the

Re: [rhelv5-list] Accidentally clobbering system accounts using script to update /etc/passwd

2008-08-19 Thread Greg_Swift
Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have attached my perl script for reference. how can I safely update the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files? What is the best practice? I don't want to set up an LDAP server because of internal politics and the extra work involved. I did not dig through

Re: [rhelv5-list] Accidentally clobbering system accounts using script to update /etc/passwd

2008-08-19 Thread Janne Blomqvist
Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi, I'm using a perl script to read a file from AFS with a list of users in passwd format and append those users to /etc/passwd. The problem is that about once every few months, the systems account, like root, vanish from the passwd file, but the backup passwd file,

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 PostgreSQL and PL/Python

2008-08-19 Thread Douglas Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mogens Kjaer wrote: Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... It looks empty to me. It wasn't: $ tnef --save-body winmail.dat $ ls -l message.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 mk itgroup 3107 Aug 19 08:08 message.rtf tnef is from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/

RE: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 PostgreSQL and PL/Python

2008-08-19 Thread Timothy Barrow
Sorry that reply was sent in error to the mailing list -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Summerfield Sent: Mon 8/18/2008 8:10 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 PostgreSQL and PL/Python Timothy

Re: [rhelv5-list] Accidentally clobbering system accounts using script to update /etc/passwd

2008-08-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have attached my perl script for reference. how can I safely update the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files? What is the best practice? I don't want to set up an LDAP server because of internal politics and the extra work

Re: [rhelv5-list] Accidentally clobbering system accounts using script to update /etc/passwd

2008-08-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have attached my perl script for reference. how can I safely update the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files? What is the best practice? I don't want to set up

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 PostgreSQL and PL/Python

2008-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Douglas Stewart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mogens Kjaer wrote: Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... It looks empty to me. It wasn't: $ tnef --save-body winmail.dat $ ls -l message.rtf -rw-r--r-- 1 mk itgroup 3107 Aug 19 08:08 message.rtf tnef is from: