pwgrd: Invalid entry found in group file /etc/group

[Lance Reichenberger]

What could be causing this entry in the syslog.log.

[RAC_1]

pwck, grpck.
logins -d

Does it retur any erros??

[Lance Reichenberger]

Yes the grpck:
Multiples of these just dif groups:
Acctg::108:bob,sandy,judyk,james,paulj,williams,michael
williams - Logname not found in password file
michael - Logname not found in password file
blank line

[Sundar_7]

Looks like the users that are member of that group are not valid users

edit /etc/group and remove the login names that are no longer valid.

[Sunil Sharma_1]

There are some users in group file who does not exist in system.

remove them from /etc/group file.


Sunil

[Lance Reichenberger]

thanks all that worked for the groups. But what about this message as well from the syslog:

syslog: libc: bad lookup policy for hosts in /etc/nsswitch.

[Sundar_7]

Post the output of the following command

# grep "^host" /etc/nsswitch.conf

[Lance Reichenberger]

I changed it the dns and see no more errors:
Here is the output:

# grep "^host" /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: dns
#

However this inof is now in the syslog:

telnetd[4197]: gethostbyaddr: wendy_herbstman.superbainc.pr
iv. != 192.1.1.230

Is the above because I am now resolving correctly???

[Sundar_7]

telnetd[4197]: gethostbyaddr: wendy_herbstman.superbainc.pr
iv. != 192.1.1.230

You should not get the above error message. Make sure you have the correct DNS servers listed in the /etc/resolv.conf file.

When there is a new connection to your system, system does a gethostbyname & gethostbyaddr and expects that the result matches.

If it doesnt, then you get the above message. This effectively means the forward and reverse look up of the host name is not in wack.

[RAC_1]

Can you resolv host "wendy_herbstman.superbainc.priv." from dns server?? (the one defined in /etc/resolv.conf)

nsquery hosts "wendy_herbstman.superbainc.pr
iv." dns

Does it return OK?? Does "wendy_herbstman.superbainc.priv." has entry in /etc/hosts?? If yes, modify your nsswitch.conf file as follows. (hosts directive)
hosts : files [NOTFOUND-continue] dns

Anil

[Lance Reichenberger]

there is no entry in etc/host. I cleaned up the DNS servers as they had 2 diff IPs for that entry.

[Lance Reichenberger]

with the Hosts : dns it kills my printer queue. However if I put the files [notfound-continue]dns, i get the following errors in syslog. back to where i was when i started:
Feb 24 13:53:38 RP74 syslog: libc: bad lookup policy for hosts in /etc/nsswitch.
conf, using defaults..

[RAC_1]

It is [NOTFOUND=continue] and not [NOTFOUND-continue]

typo from me.

[Lance Reichenberger]

is this how it is supposed to read? With spaces between files and [ and ] and dns???

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns