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From: geoffrey@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us (Geoffrey Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unknown class root in 2.2.2-RELEASE
Date: 30 May 97 16:03:51 GMT
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Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> writes:

>Tony Griffiths wrote:
>> 
>> Ernie Elu wrote:
>> >
>> > I am getting the following message on the console every time I login or ftp
>> > to a newly installed 2.2.2-RELEASE machine.
>> >
>> > inetd[150]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>> >
>> > I used cvsup to upgrade to 2.2-STABLE but I still get the same error message
>> 
>Acutally the real solution is to get a copy of "login.conf" and put it
>in the /etc directory.  When this is done, you need to run the
>'cap_mkdb' program.  Eg.

># cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

>Tony

Yes but WHERE does one get a copy, aside from creating one from scratch? I
installed 2.2.2 clean from ftp, and it wasn't included.

Geoffrey