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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does leafnode work?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 01:57:53 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <ca32p5.lb.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
[.....]
> One thing that needs to be looked into in 2.2.2 and later is:
>
> If login.conf and the classes scheme replaces certain older kernel config
> options, shouldn't certain users have their classes defined by default
> in master.passwd (such as root, news, etc.)?
>
> I had to do a vipw (as well as edit login.conf) to finally get rid of the
> annoying "too many open files" message from leafnode's fetch (user news).
>
> OK, some might say, "admin your system", but we're talking about default
> user id's. Why aren't their classes defined in master.passwd?
See my other posting - there is a bug in util.c - fixed by the
port. I've just sent my patches to the author.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !