From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 18 16:25:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C0816A400 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Received: from shanshito.webanoide.org (shanshito.webanoide.org [150.101.108.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D88D13C44B for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Received: from maxito.hba.navalradio.cl (maxito.hba.navalradio.cl [172.26.4.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by shanshito.webanoide.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4IGPah7040971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:38 GMT (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Message-ID: <464DD37F.1000709@webanoide.org> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 02:25:35 +1000 From: Mikhail Goriachev Organization: Webanoide User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Falanga References: <340a29540705180747k1aa90c6ap9ae178f09742ce53@mail.gmail.com> <464DBEC5.2050103@webanoide.org> <340a29540705180854p21063b2fl4d34359e728cd055@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <340a29540705180854p21063b2fl4d34359e728cd055@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Problems upgrading a 6.0 install to 6.2-RELEASE-p4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:39 -0000 Andrew Falanga wrote: > On 5/18/07, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: >> Andrew Falanga wrote: >> >> >> You really must read the following (or at least skim through): >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >> >> and >> >> /usr/src/Makefile >> >> >> All correct instructions are in there and you shouldn't skip any steps. >> >> mergemaster will take care of that audit group among other things. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Mikhail. >> > > Ok, I'm reading through the web link you sent. I see in section > 23.4.1 the steps are: > > # make buildworld > # make buildkernel > # make installkernel > # reboot > > > > # mergemaster -p > # make installworld > # mergemaster > # reboot > > I did these steps then, and I'm still getting the missing audit group > errors. What is this audit group, what's its function, etc.? Since > nothing of "world" has been installed yet, can I simply erase /usr/src > and replace with the 6.0-RELEASE cd's, which I have, and then do the > cvsup once again. This time doing a mergemaster *before* I buildworld > and then installworld? That group is related to Security Event Auditing[1]. The following is the entry about it in /usr/src/UPDATING: 20060204: The 'audit' group was added to support the new auditing functionality in the base system. Be sure to follow the directions for updating, including the requirement to run mergemaster -p. Regards, Mikhail. [1] - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/audit.html -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: www.webanoide.org