Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:18:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: adam@FreeBSD.org, pst@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cnews fails if user "news" doesn't exist Message-ID: <199504180818.BAA11997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 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
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> > * 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
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