From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 17 21:57:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA27585 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA27580 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA25385; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:57:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:57:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Few Notes on 2.2.5-971015-BETA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote: > It also says when it boots up that it can't find boot.config or > boot.help. I've always gotten that; 2.2.1-RELEASE onwards. > I've always been a little surprised that the menu inviting one to add > a user doesn't mention that the group into which you want to put the > user has to be added first, if it doesn't already exist (and should > in standard cases be the same as the user name, I think). New users > aren't going to get that right, but then, why make things too easy? I've often thought that it should say something like "group doesn't exist. Add?" Plus, a lot of sits have a generic user group; I always set up such, and I never remember to put it in /etc/groups first. And I'm not all that new. I'm in favor of patching this at some point. Other opinions? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*