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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!news.idiom.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!bofh.noc.best.net!ennui From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Gotta Love Those FreeBSD Installs Date: 1 Jul 1997 10:08:26 -0700 Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5pbdia$brf$1@bofh.noc.best.net> References: <5p9v93$ncp$1@207.18.94.16> NNTP-Posting-Host: ennui.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43954 In article <5p9v93$ncp$1@207.18.94.16>, pavanas abludo incusus <pavanas@bbs.mpcs.com> wrote: >1) Why does bits and pieces of the Xwindow software have group `10'? What >to do replace it with wheel or create a group `10' in group and join? >Or is there some easier way to do this? It just comes that way; whomever set it up had a group '10' on their machine. Most of us don't. No biggie. chgrp -R wheel /usr/X11 if it bugs ya. >2) In 2.2.1 and in 2.2.2 the BSD games did not install completely or with >proper permissions. Is there a magic incantation for this? Sounds strange to me; i've got no such problems. >4) And lastly when the trashing, loss or forgetting of root's passwd >occurs how do you fix it?. Single user (at least when I tried could not >use vipw) did not do it. (The time between install and adding login.conf) Did you try "passwd root"? If that doesn't work, man pwd_mkdb(8). rone -- rone's rules: Ron Echeverri - I don't care. Systems/Usenet Administration - It's not important. Best Internet Communications - Leave me alone. rone@best.net