From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 21:41:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D8F16A515 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC0343D9F for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:40:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id kAULdg526582; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:39:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from [64.102.193.107] (dhcp-64-102-193-107.cisco.com [64.102.193.107]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id kAULdgS28092; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:39:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <456F4FDC.2080702@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:40:44 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: philip brown References: <585681.53486.qm@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <585681.53486.qm@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: user haldaemon does not exist X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:41:07 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 philip brown wrote: > I'm running 6.2 RC1 and I get the following error > message (follows) when hald tries to start up. > > I added a regular user named "haldaemon" with adduser > and hald all worked fine. > > I also > 1.) commented out cdrom device in /etc/fstab > 2.) made sure /media folder existed > 3.) pw group mod operator -m philip as in q.19 g2 faq > > so I do have a working hald installation, however I > would like "haldaemon" as a system account (ie. like > www or uucp or pop). not like a regular end user (ie. > philip david dweezil moon_unit). > > I am relatively new to freebsd administration, can > somebody please advise how I would achieve this. > > I would imagine on installation "haldaemon" should > have been installed? How did you install hal? This user should be created automatically by the port and/or package. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFb0/cb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkB/AJ0d5bdOHfR1iEXPmL6yZquqIxOmPQCbBJsq jsZXlxH8/8sBdDNA4B2Susk= =f2pO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----