From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 00:24:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA19258 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:24:06 -0800 Received: from easynet.com (easyr.easynet.net [198.67.38.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA19247 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:24:05 -0800 Received: by easynet.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0ruFMZ-000rccC; Thu, 30 Mar 95 00:13 WET Message-Id: From: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) Subject: Re: passwd & bind error with snap To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:13:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Howard Lew" at Mar 29, 95 04:01:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 805 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > : I upgraded to 950322 SNAP from 950210 SNAP, and ever since I can't use > > : "passwd". (I didn't do a "full re-install", I just unpacked the bin/* make passwd setuid to root. chown root passwd chmod 4555 passwd (I think) > I installed the new snap release by doing the following. Can someone > please tell me if it was the correct thing to do? > > 10) redo all the network stuff again. (I also get some sort of can't > bind error... Is that normal when the PPP link is not up yet?) > > I have also recompiled the kernel for more PPP and SLIP devices, but > the problems are still there. The bind error comes up because syslogd is run in /etc/rc before the network is started. you could move it to after /etc/nestart is run but this has risks too. Brian Litzinger brian@easynet.com