From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 15:11:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD99237B417 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CE84901A43; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:10:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:10:09 -0400 From: mpd To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smmsp Message-ID: <20020409181009.A57811@rochester.rr.com> References: <001201c1e00b$431e5d10$020144c0@danny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <001201c1e00b$431e5d10$020144c0@danny>; from eyezonme@gmx.net on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:12:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:12:19PM -0400, Danny wrote: > I just did a cvsup/make world, and the system halted while beginning to > install the freshly built src because of the lack of user 'smmsp'. After > creating the user (and group of the same name) things went fine, but I'm > curious as to what the purpose of this username is, and why the install > didn't create the user on its own. Thanks The install does create the user if you run mergemaster in the correct step. This is all in /usr/src/UPDATING. It should probably be in the FAQ, seeing as this question has been asked a *bunch* in the past few weeks. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "POKEY LEVITATION IS FUN!!!" - Little Girl from "THE POWER OF BELIEF" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message