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Newer page: version 15 Last edited on Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:16:22 am by StuartYeates Revert
Older page: version 14 Last edited on Monday, March 8, 2004 9:59:30 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
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 A Microsoft Windows error message as reported by comp.risks 21.37 
  
 !! You don't exist. Go away. 
  
-This message appears for certain unix programs when an entry can't be found for you in /etc/passwd (or these days, via [PAM]). This might be because you've not logged in via login(1) (this can happen if /etc/inittab specifies a program that doesn't log you in, instead of getty(8)) or if your machine can't retrieve the data from the network (if you are using [NIS] or [LDAP] or some other network user administration system). 
+This message appears for certain unix programs when an entry can't be found for you in /etc/passwd (or these days, via [PAM]). This might be because you've not logged in via login(1) (this can happen if /etc/inittab specifies a program that doesn't log you in, instead of getty(8)), if your machine can't retrieve the data from the network (if you are using [NIS] or [LDAP] or some other network user administration system) or if you've made a mistake editing /etc/passwd (or friends ). 
  
 !! Curse on you, wizard, before you recurse on me. 
  
 bibtex(1) style files use an undocumented language called [BST] (or that's the file extenstion, which is the closest it has to a name). In this language recusion is prohibited, and this is the message you get if you try it.