From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 02:51:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA13992 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 02:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com [198.178.203.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA13985 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 02:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from 198.178.203.133 (kaiwan133.kaiwan.com [198.178.203.133]) by kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA21715 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 02:51:42 -0800 (PST) *** KAIWAN Internet *** Message-ID: <32F320E7.6A3@ucsd.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 02:54:40 -0800 From: Todd Hansen X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; U; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't send local mail (or use bash) after recompiling kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was fooling with the kernel configuration. I mainly wanted to get tcpdump to work so I could see what was wrong with the network. Turned out to be a routing problem. But anyway, I add the following: device joy0 at isa? port "IO_GAME" pseudo-device vn #Vnode filesystem? pseudo-device bpfilter 1 pseudo-device speaker pseudo-device snp 1 #snoop device. Didn't actually work I added the following dev nodes: snp (or snp0) can't remember joy0 #bpf0 was already present. And recompiled. I am using 2.1.6 #0. Now, I rebooted and everything seems to be working fine. Then I tried to send mail to my friend (local account) and it gave me an error that it could not execute mail.local. I have checked the file it listed (directory too) and it has the correct priviliges as a matter of fact, anybody can execute it. Anyway, I freaked out, recompiled the old (prechanges old kernel) and it rebooted with the same problems. As it turns out, (I just figured this out, halfway through this e-mail) is that nobody can execute anything unless they are in group 0 (wheel). I am in group wheel so I didn't notice, but my friends noticed when they couldn't execute there login shells. All of the priviliges seem right and everthing seems to be working. Any suggestions. I just recompiled the kernel. I can start over with a generic kernel, but not until I get a chance to visit my computer screen as I have to run a boot config for it to even boot. Anyway, I am sort of mad becuase I don't want to have to reinstall freebsd again. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. -Taco Todd Hansen, KD6YPS