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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:13:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger)
To:        hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: passwd & bind error with snap
Message-ID:  <m0ruFMZ-000rccC@easynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950329155441.13191A-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> from "Howard Lew" at Mar 29, 95 04:01:44 pm

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> > : 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



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