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From: Gordon Greeff <gordon@iafrica.com>
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To: "deepak.s.bhonsle" <rewdale@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in>
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Subject: Re: problem with "login_getclass"
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On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, deepak.s.bhonsle wrote:

> login: sep 7 08:40:50 FreeBSD inetd[180]: login_getclass: unknown class
> 'root'
> 
> 1) what do i do to correct this problem ?.
> 2) does this occur on all systems with FreeBSD 2.2.2 installed ?.

1) you need a file called login.conf on your /etc directory
2) I think it does (am open to correction here)

PS - try ftp://hole.iafrica.com/pub/ to get the file (login.conf)

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