[arch-general] (no subject)

Jens Adam jra at byte.cx
Tue Jun 9 19:51:02 UTC 2015


Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:39:24 -0500
Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com>:

> [localuser at localhost ~]$ systemctl status shadow
>    shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
> 
> I am having some difficulty trying to find information on this.
> Bottom line: is this a problem, that I need to fix, or is it
> something that is normal and can just be ignored?

The information is in /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.*
It's a daily OneShot service (replacing a daily cronjob from
pre-systemd-times) running 'pwck -r' and 'grpck -r', so run these
commands manually and see what they're complaining about.

--byte


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