Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:48:20 -0500 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Can't build kernel with ndis Message-ID: <59.75.05826.4772CD05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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> If you want to insert the auditdistd user manually, that is fine,
> though I find doing it with mergemaster easier. (If you use it
> correctly ('m' option), it won't destroy your password file. But don't
> do it with vi. the actual pssword file is only a part of the process
> and the tool to properly edit it is vipw. Ir will edit /etc/passed,
> update master.passwd file, and, most importantly, update actual
> passworf databases. You can manually do this by running pwd_mkdb.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
Your typos confused me, I couldn't find a file /etc/passed but found /etc/passwd.
vipw made no changes for me.
I finally found how to use the m option inside mergemaster -p, it was very tricky.
mergemaster -m is for using a different directory instead of /etc (I checked man page).
After many attempts, I found what was wrong and changed the newly-offending line in /etc/master.passwd .
So finally I was able to make installkernel with apparent success. I will let rebooting single-user and the rest of the update wait because I now am overdue for bed. I also want to update for i386 and for a USB-stick amd64 installation, partly so I can test the ndiswrapper. I also want to build wine (i386).
Tom
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