RE: Problems after upgrade
I upgraded my server from FreeBSD 4.6.2 to version 4.8. After this, my passwd file was empty and my master.passwd was gone! I have a backup of these files and now I need to rebuild my users database. Is there a way to do this from my old files? I also need them for my SMB network. Sounds like a mergemaster gone bad. If you have a backup as you say you do, I think you just need to merge the two files together into the new file. I say merge because going from 4.6.2 to 4.8, a couple system entries were added to the password file. Easiest way would probably be to copy the new lines from the new/blank password file to a copy of your backed up password file via vipw, then mv your manually merged file into the normal system location. Good luck. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems after upgrade
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:30:36PM -0600, Luis Guzmán wrote: I upgraded my server from FreeBSD 4.6.2 to version 4.8. After this, my passwd file was empty and my master.passwd was gone! I have a backup of these files and now I need to rebuild my users database. Is there a way to do this from my old files? I also need them for my SMB network. Copy your backup master.passwd file to /etc/master.passwd and then run: # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd which will rebuild the password database, including the /etc/passwd file. Nb. If you upgraded your system using the install media, what it will have done is essentially write over your original system with the updated files. That includes giving you a fresh set of the default versions of the files under /etc -- it will backup your original settings for you, but you're going to have to merge those files with the new ones under /etc. This includes particularly such files as /etc/group, /etc/login.conf, /etc/make.conf, your PPP configuration (if you're using PPP) and any other files you've customised. You may find the following commands useful if you need to restore the group or login.conf files: # cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf # cap_mkdb /etc/group (It does no harm to run those if you're not sure whether you need to or not.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: problems after upgrade 5.1 5.2 RC1
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:27:08PM +0100, martin vana wrote: Hi, after binary upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 RC1 I've encoutered some non-critical misbehaviour of my box, after executing mount : /home/vana#mount on () on () on () on () on () on () and fsck: /home/vana#fsck -y /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: fsck: Undefined symbol execvP Whole system works just fine but these two things scares me a bit, anyone experienced the same? Do you have some old executables in your path that are superceding the system versions? Try 'which mount' and 'which fsck' Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: problems after upgrade 5.1 5.2 RC1
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:47:44 -0800 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:27:08PM +0100, martin vana wrote: Hi, after binary upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 RC1 I've encoutered some non-critical misbehaviour of my box, after executing mount : /home/vana#mount on () on () on () on () on () on () and fsck: /home/vana#fsck -y /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: fsck: Undefined symbol execvP Whole system works just fine but these two things scares me a bit, anyone experienced the same? Do you have some old executables in your path that are superceding the system versions? Try 'which mount' and 'which fsck' Kris it might be possible that upgrade went something wrong but: /home/vanawhich fsck /sbin/fsck /home/vanawhich mount /sbin/mount ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
