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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:11:12 -0500
From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To: Charlie ROOT <root@indiemedia.com>
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Subject: Re: strange error
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On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 02:16:21PM -0500, Charlie ROOT wrote:
> 
> Hello and Thank You.
> 
> My computer (BSD 2.2.2) has been giving thi serror message:
> 
> Jan 10 14:14:19 name  inetd[24644]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
> 
> Does anyone know what it means?
> 
> Adios,
> Brian
> 
> 

If you installed the source, as root, try the following

   cp /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc/login.conf
   /usr/bin/cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

I believe that the login class capability database, `/etc/login.conf', 
was inadvertently omitted from the 2.2.2 release. You may want to take
a look at the manual page for login.conf(5).
-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.