From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 15:10:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17584 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17575 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26615; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:09:13 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199812022309.VAA26615@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: Uh oh... In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at "Dec 2, 98 06:00:02 pm" To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:09:12 -0200 (EDT) Cc: jonny@jonny.eng.br, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #define quoting(Matthew N. Dodd) // On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: // > Check the existence of every user and group needed for the system, at // > the very beggining of the make world, and stop the compilation if they // > are not present. This should be done the earliest possible, and must // > show every needed user, including the probably obvious ones. // // And tell them they can use 'make updategroupsandusers' to let the system // do it for them. Is this safe to be done by a make script ? I was thinking about manual editing. Mostly because I'm not only thinking in the upgrade case, but also in some special cases in which a admin removes some previously existant groups, like network, man, bin or even wheel, thinking they have no use for him. Maybe a suggestion to look at src/etc/master.passwd, etc. could be enough. Anyway, make world should not be used by novices. :) Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message