From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 17:26:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EB41065670 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:26:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maanjee@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A283E8FC15 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:26:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maanjee@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so546460wah.3 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:26:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=0dtaI9qQ6+NFE7usiwyNrxsITHZF5hCuBzu8mAn05O8=; b=UFoghphJ+4DJICxdTiwG5XgERhElDcsCoXPV+gJwfPJHouIjumiq8S9jGkgraxhFyv AFr2HJRh5ebvvLnI6GN6oMeFi+aZwb7UsEQmiJbuN2K2qQYSpw/YRCgBbyFQTk+TiFlD XTScMVcPSrTdYwiLtWDmMHwcEDKqIns+I9M9A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=UFALso1F3pLO8BakWloRl5nePOaE67ss1ItcBoWBcHK9ZwUfh21gF3zrOauj9hLW/6 Spp63lXrZXjnspo4VwxrxYj6W2G4wxskJosNculXTAOhhV5vfHlMIJuy7gR8ynQbo3R1 6FU3kWmiX8U9YZNJpY3yTHBZGl2NmIzSk91AA= Received: by 10.114.157.3 with SMTP id f3mr2961532wae.40.1220030786008; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.102.17 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2cd0a0da0808291026x4f70a82dxb577fe56e503055@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:26:25 +0200 From: VeeJay To: "Dan Nelson" , FreeBSD-Questions , VeeJay In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0808290308r3fc3873bp2871ae55acac9078@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2cd0a0da0808281058t13cae3dk93ca769ae81157c3@mail.gmail.com> <20080828181300.GG26653@dan.emsphone.com> <2cd0a0da0808290308r3fc3873bp2871ae55acac9078@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory 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, 29 Aug 2008 17:26:27 -0000 Hi Dan Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look for to make these changes and correct this problem? Regards VJ On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, VeeJay wrote: > Hi Dan > > Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look > for to make these changes and correct this problem? > > Regards > > VJ > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > >> In the last episode (Aug 28), VeeJay said: >> > Hi there >> > >> > I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am >> getting >> > this message when server boots.... >> > >> > Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error??? >> > >> > _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory >> >> Do you maybe have a user account whose home directory is /dev/null ? It >> looks like program (su, maybe?) is looking for ~/.login_conf using the >> _secure_path() function. Try changing that home directroy to >> /var/empty , which is an empty directory with no write permission >> provided for cases when you need one. >> >> -- >> Dan Nelson >> dnelson@allantgroup.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > -- > Thanks! > > BR / vj > -- Thanks! BR / vj