Re: [hylafax-users] [Hylafax 4.21 from source on MacOsX 10.37] pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

* gerard <gerard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [050203 14:37]:
> I need to install Hylafax on a MAC OS X 10.3
> 
> For the first part all seams to go well (installing libtiff, 
> Ghostscript, and creating fax, bin and uucp groups ...)
> 
> During the installation I need to do the command?:
> chpass -a "uucp:*:10:66::0:0:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:"
> 
> But I receive a message saying that the password database is 
> corrupted?:-(

> Is it a problem from MacOS?? I don?t think?! I think is just because 
> I?m a newbie, but I can?t found the way to go on.

I haven't had a chance to play on OSX yet, but I believe that they don't
use a password file (/etc/passwd) type setup, but their "lookup" daemon
does it.  Really, what the installation is trying to to is make sure a
"uucp" user exists.  You will have to create this the way Mac OSX
creates all it's other accounts.  faxsetup has a primitive way of
looking for this user (grep from /etc/passwd) which fails on their OSX
setup.  You might have to disable some of the user checking in faxsetup.

A patch would be lovely, and if it handles everything, probably
integrated.

a.


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Aidan Van Dyk                                             aidan@xxxxxxxx
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