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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unknown class root in 2.2.2-RELEASE
Date: 30 May 1997 16:54:11 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <geoffrey.865008231@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us>,
geoffrey@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us (Geoffrey Alexander) writes:
> 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.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf
> Geoffrey
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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