From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 18 01:21:25 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA23061 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:21:25 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA23028 ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:21:14 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA11997; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:18:29 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504180818.BAA11997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cnews fails if user "news" doesn't exist To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Cc: adam@FreeBSD.org, pst@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504180809.BAA03175@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 18, 95 01:09:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 950 Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > * You need to update the master.passwd file on your system: > > * News has had a ``well known'' uid:gid of 8:8 for a very long time :-) > > A-ha! > > ---------------------------- > revision 1.9 > date: 1995/01/03 21:02:01; author: ache; state: Exp; lines: +1 -0 > Add 'news' user, present in group, but missed in master.passwd > ---------------------------- > > I see. Since it isn't on my machine (2.0R), nor freefall, nor thud, I > thought it's not standard. :) > > But a "make world" doesn't update master.passwd, so we still need to > do something about this from the ports standpoint (for people who did > a source upgrade). Any ideas? Use grep -q to find out if the user and the group exists, if it does not fail the make and tell the user to add the news accounts??? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD