From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 3 18:13:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server2.highperformance.net (ip30.gte4.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.215.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33AF37B425 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:13:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.highperformance.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.highperformance.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g342ClQG003124; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@highperformance.net) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by server2.highperformance.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g342CRFZ003121; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:12:37 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.highperformance.net: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:12:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@server2.highperformance.net To: Bryan Berch Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld failure In-Reply-To: <3CABB23F.3000302@charterpa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Bryan Berch wrote: > Alex wrote: > >On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Bryan Berch wrote: > > > >>I am getting the same error messages when doing make installworld, but I > >>have the right lines in /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group from previous > >>mergemaster. Is there something else I should try? > >> > > > >Try deleting the entries and then use pw to put them back. Worked for me. > > > I tried deleting the entries and using pw to put them back in, but get > told that they already exist. Then I tried using pw to delete them and > it tells me they do not exist. Is there another way to get the system > to recognize the smmsp and mailnull? Did you use 'vipw' to edit your passwd databases? You must use 'vipw' to edit the passwd database to be sure that the shadow passwd database is updated. If not, there is also something like 'pw_mkdb' to update your databases. Later, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message