[1088] in NetBSD-Development
passwd cruft files (was: more questions)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Oct 27 08:56:32 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 08:55:01 -0400
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[189] in pc-dialup"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Enveloped to pc-dialup, cc-ed to netbsd-dev, further discussion
on the latter, please.
> so why do we have lots of files like:
> /etc/<unknown>.007469
> /etc/<unknown>.007469.orig
> and
> /etc/login.013294
They're some artifact of pwd_mkdb or xlogin, and should be
fixed. Someone should look into it...
> they all look like /etc/master.passwd copies, and are
> not readable.. but what makes them, and should we have a
> cron job that cleans them up?
Poor engineering solution. Fix the problem, not the symptom, thank
you!
--jhawk
