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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Pat Barron <pat@transarc.com>
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Subject: Re: Whence /etc/login.conf? - 2.2.2-RELEASE
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On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Pat Barron wrote:

> Why is /etc/login.conf not installed when I install a 2.2.2-RELEASE
> system?  I've generally been doing plain vanilla "Kern-developer"
> installs, but this also happened on a machine where I has a full /usr/src
> tree.
> 
> There is a login.conf in /usr/src/etc, and just copying it to /etc fixes
> the problem, but I'm wondering if I could be doing something wrong that's
> preventing this file from being copied.

No, it was a bug in the distribution.

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