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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:36:10 -0400
To: Patrik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5str=F6m?= <patrik.astrom@tv3.se>
From: Greg <gcaron@net1plus.com>
Subject: Re: Strange errormessage !
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Someone off the list offered me this solution when I had this problem. 

You need to add the login.conf file into your /etc directory.

You can grab it from:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf


At 08:44 PM 6/4/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello !
>
>I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE and now im getting a strange
>error messages when someone loggs in from remote or from the console.
>Below is a part of my logg file.
>
>Jun  4 18:43:02 ns su: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 18:44:23 ns su: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:02:14 ns inetd[4326]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:06:34 ns inetd[4348]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:06:49 ns su: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:08:57 ns inetd[4406]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:09:34 ns su: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:27:27 ns login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:46:24 ns login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:46:40 ns login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:48:13 ns login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 19:58:09 ns login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 20:18:56 ns inetd[180]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>Jun  4 20:20:23 ns inetd[201]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
>
>This is also echo'd to the console.
>
>I don't know what this meens, On this particular mashine i was running
>2.1.6 before i reinstalled 2.2.2 from scratch and there where no
>promblems with that older version, maybe there is some configuration
>that have changed between these two versions that i dont know of. Can
>you tell what the problem is from the information in this email or do
>you need more information of some kind. It also say "Warning: Imported
>path contains relative components" when "root" loggs in on the console,
>maybe that has something to do with it, it don't know. I would be most
>thanfull for any ideas or suggestions that you might have.
>
>Regard Patrik Astrom, TV3 Stockholm-Sweden
>
>
>Patrik Astrom
>Airtime AB/TV3 Stockholm
>+46-8-56202400
>
>
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