I use NIS but have in my Solaris nsswitch.conf file passwd: files I do this for security reasons, to prevent others from loggin onto my workstation. The /etc/passwd file on my machine also has a copy of the /etc/passwd file, but I explcitly overrode the shell values of all but a few people. When I built 5.6.0, it failed on the op/pwent test. (not ok 1) I ignored the failure and installed perl anyway. It's not a big deal, but thought I should mention it. I don't remember this error before. It could just be a fleshware problem on my end. :-)