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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: uucp
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:13:38 +0000 (UTC)
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George Barnett <george@alink.co.za> wrote:

> I'm trying to do an installworld and I'm receiving the following error:

> mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /
> mtree: line 57: unknown user uucp
> *** Error code 1

> Now, I can either go and add the user UUCP..

Do so.  Why did you remove it in the first place?

> or I could try figure out why make is ignoring this:
> 
> foo# grep UUCP /etc/make.conf
> NOUUCP=true    # do not build uucp related programs

This says "do not build uucp related programs".  It does not say
to ignore every traditional usage of the user "uucp" for serial
locking etc.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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