Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:48:57 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: beni.brinckman@dommel.be Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installworld fails Message-ID: <20060311104857.GA44908@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060311113917.30ykb3rbicoo0844@webmail.dommel.be> References: <20060311113917.30ykb3rbicoo0844@webmail.dommel.be>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:39:17AM +0100, beni.brinckman@dommel.be wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:52:01AM +0100, beni.brinckman@dommel.be wrote: > > [no he didn't; please use a mail client that quotes properly - it is > confusing to read your emails otherwise, since Lars wrote some of the > below text and not you] > > Yes he did, but i don't see the relevance of this remark to the initial > question. It's in your own interests to write easily readable emails, otherwise people won't read them. > But to answer your question, this is written via webmail, so any > issues your reader has, please contact my provider (dommel.be) so that he can > change this webmail program. > > > The error message is wrong. > > Actually it's correct, just a bit unclear. ?UPDATING includes the > complete procedure you should always follow when building world. ?It > includes a 'mergemaster -p' step, precisely for the purpose of adding > new users and groups when they appear. > > > There is a new group in '/etc/group' called 'audit:*:77:'. > > > > I recommend you don't automate mergemaster operations, > > and rerun the whole procedure manually. > > Yes, this script is just asking for trouble. ?Still, I bet you'll stop > using it after the first time it destroys your FreeBSD installation > :-) > > Until now this script did exactly what is was supposed to do, so I don't see why > I should stop now. OK. I hope you remember this conversation when that day comes :-) Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEEqsZWry0BWjoQKURAsX5AKDynntoUiuFYP1yvTvM72wLwk0s0wCdGO8y BKqiSbLDnhXaJQ6mmwZSwLo= =GV7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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