From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 11 20:29:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25555 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 20:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Pkrw.tcn.net (Pkrw.tcn.net [199.166.4.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25550 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 20:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (krw@localhost) by Pkrw.tcn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00362; Sun, 11 May 1997 23:29:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Pkrw.tcn.net: krw owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:29:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: Mike Tancsa cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-STABLE src-2.2.0274 "login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970511231241.00a9ac20@sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A little investigation and ... Somewhere along the way a new file has been created that should be in the /etc directory: login.conf. This file contains the stuff that login_getclass() and friends are looking for. I just copied /usr/src/etc/login.conf as /etc/login.conf and the message no longer appears. Of course there seems to be a lot of stuff in login.conf that should be modified by anybody not just running a workstation setup like me. ---- Ken On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:25 PM 5/11/97 -0400, Kenneth R. Westerback wrote: > >After make world'ing my 2.2-STABLE system with ctm src-2.2.0274 I > >rebooted, re config'ed and rebuilt the kernel, rebooted again and once I > >logged on I ran popclient to get my mail > > > >Immediately after the popclient message 'flushing message 1' I got a > >message displayed on the screen > > > > Pkrw inetd[144]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root' > > > >I've never seen this message before and I'd like to know what it means and > >what I should do to stop getting it in the future. > > > >Ideas? Knowledge? > > > I have the same problem.. I posted it to questions, but have yet to get an > answer. If any one has any hints, please cc' it to me as well, or post it > to questions in addition to stable... > > ---Mike > ********************************************************************** > Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche > Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre > Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra > (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) * > >