Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:02:29 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console messages Message-ID: <199711281602.LAA11951@current.willscreek.com> In-Reply-To: <86811503@toto.iv>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bill Sandiford wrote: > The following message comes up every time someone makes an inetd type > connection to my box (ftp, telnet, popper, etc.) and I don't know why, or > how to stop it. Help would be appreciated. > > Nov 28 10:53:25 duey inetd[20538]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root' > > This is fairly annoying as it makes the console unusable. How do I fix > this? It's always a good idea to check the mailing list archives and/or the FreeBSD web pages before posting a question to the list; they're located at `http://WWW.FreeBSD.ORG/search.html'. By entering `login.conf' in the mailing-list search box, ensuring that the `questions' button was selected, and pressing the `Submit Query' button, you'd have found countless answers to your question, since this particular question has been posted countless times since 2.2.2-RELEASE came out. Searching the FreeBSD web pages would've done the trick, too, pointing you to `http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.2.2R/errata.html'. That errata document contains the solution to your problem. Here's a direct quote: Last minute errata: ------------------- o login as root produces "login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" on system console. Fix: If you have the source distribution installed, simply cp /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc otherwise, get it from the FreeBSD FTP site using this URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf instead. Simply cd to /etc and then run fetch(1) with the provided URL. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging. Don't have aesthetic convulsions when using them, either.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199711281602.LAA11951>