Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 06:35:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@xtdl.com> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: Sue Blake <sue2@welearn.com.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login_getclass unknown class Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980402062845.14891B-100000@user.xtdl.com> In-Reply-To: <19980402095351.50685@iii.co.uk>
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I guess you could say I am a newbie on this. Anyway I didn't think of searching for login_getclass. I am also new to searching I do usually try to find the answer myself searching @altavista.digital.com , the freebsd website . www.ugu.com and maybe a few others. I also have the man pages and the handbook as well. I have learned something. search for relative words rather than just a direct word such as vmstat , iostat, etc. Thanks alot !! Thank You ! Stephen A. Derdau "So What if it is wrong. I am getting closer to the right answer!" "If I had a nickle for every time I was wrrong , I would want a quarter instead. :-)" On Thu, 2 Apr 1998 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > How do, > > [ cc'd to -questions, because it answers the original posters question > (in a roundabout way) and to -newbies because I think this reasonably > states *my* approach to answering questions, and I want to know whether > people think I'm being too harsh. When replying, please make sure that > your reply goes to the correct mailing list. ] > > On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 11:37:19AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 07:25:46PM -0600, Frank Pawlak wrote: > > > You might want to check out the errata for release 2.2.2 > > > > That won't necessarily help. > > > > Why doesn't somebody just tell this guy where the file he is missing > > can be found, and leave it at that. > > I think this is part of the "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. > Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." philosophy, although > (IMHO) Frank could have phrased his answer a little better. > > I just went to the search engine, and put "Login_getclass" in the mailing > list search box. I looked at the results. Since this is an e-mail archive, > I know that any replies *should* have "Re: " at the beginning of the > subject line. Since I'm looking for answers to questions, I want to > ignore anything that doesn't have "Re: " at the start of the subject, > since it's probably someone else asking exactly the same question. > > Result #4 is the first one that looks promising, > > 4.Tim Moony Re: inetd[xxxx]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root' > > and following that link does take me to a message that explains the > problem. > > For jollies, I did the same search on the web pages. The *very* first > hit was for <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.2.2R/errata.html>, > and the first entry on that page is > > 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. > > As I've said (in e-mail to Sue), it's very easy to think "Ah, I've got a > problem, I'll just send off a quick e-mail to the mailing lists, it's so > much easier than searching." If everyone does that the lists start to > drown in a sea of repeated questions. And after a while the people that > do answer the questions (well, me, anyway) get bored of answering the same > questions, and start to ignore them. > > Which benefits no one. > > [ In case it's not clear: that's my opinion above, and I have no idea if > anyone else on -questions holds it. It's certainly not an 'official' > opinion of the FreeBSD project. ] > > N > -- > Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache > Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need > Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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