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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:33:29 -0700
To: Joe Clarke <marcus@bradenton.cs.miami.edu>
From: Steve Caine <shc@cfg.com>
Subject: Re: getclass error on FreeBSD 2.2.2
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At 10:51 97/06/10 -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
>[...]
>inetd[11704]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>[...]

You need to

  cp -p /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc

or create an /etc/login.conf from scratch (man 5 login.conf).

Steve.