site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Oct 31, 2008, at 07:00 , Sean Gates wrote: Greetings from a new subscriber, [snip] HTH Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- My wife 'n kids 'n dogs are gone, I can't get Jesus on the phone, But Ol' Milwaukee's Best is my best friend. ----------- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I’m having a problem on Macintosh OSX 10.4 & 10.5 involving user information lookup where the ‘getpwuid(getuid())’ call sequence starts unexpectedly returning NULL after an initial period of successful operation. On some systems the lookup failures start within than a day; on others, no failures have yet been observed. This is a wild guess, too early in the morning, but: do you rewind the password database before use? Check "man getpwuid" for details. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com