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snorklewacker (NetBSD 1.4) telnet client borken?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Tue Nov 2 10:45:20 1999

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 10:44:59 -0500 (EST)
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>


When I run telnet on snorklewacker under NetBSD 1.4,

> snorklewacker% which telnet
> /usr/athena/bin/telnet
> snorklewacker% cd /usr/athena/bin
> snorklewacker% /bin/pwd
> /u1/usr/srvd-8.3.0/usr/athena/bin


I get this error in my Athena console:

> 10:28 Nov  2 10:28:57 snorklewacker telnet: /etc/pwd.db: Inappropriate file
> type or format

... the telnet session appears to work perfectly normally, other than that
error.

I don't seem to have frobbed any of the LD_* environment variables. I'm not
sure whether there's anything else I'm likely to have done that would have
caused this.

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