From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 13: 8:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326DD14A2F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:08:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18769 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:08:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:08:02 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199903222108.WAA18769@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob K wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > I recently wanted to try out 24-character usernames on my system. So, > following the man page for adduser, I changed UT_NAMESIZE in > /usr/include/utmp.h to 24 from the default of 16. I then changed > MAXLOGNAME in /usr/include/sys/param.h to 25, as per the comments in both > utmp.h and param.h. I then made buildworld && make installworld (-j4 -O > -pipe only) and a new kernel (-O -pipe), and then built the various ports > that would need it. Did you change it in /usr/include only? If I'm not mistaken, you have to change it in /usr/src/include before doing a make world (otherwise it doesn't really take effect). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message