Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: arlankfo@141.com (Andrew Lankford) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Making my login class capabilities database work right on 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199902070016.TAA27873@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <B0000112998@library.rcpl.org> from Andrew Lankford at "Feb 6, 99 01:46:44 pm"
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Redirected to freebsd-questions rather than freebsd-newbies. Andrew Lankford wrote, > Two problems have been a minor source of irritation to me while I've used > 2.2.2 and 2.2.5. > First, I haven't been able to get the class capabilities > database to work. I was alerted to this problem when I first logged on to the > console: > Feb 6 13:15:56 bogushost login: couldn't resolve 'tc=' reference in 'login_getclass' > > Since then, I've tried restoring the login.conf file to the "out of box" version, I've looked for incorrect syntax, and I've tried "tweaking" it in order > to rid the file of "tc=" references. > Going by the man page documentation, I couldn't find any problems with > login.conf, so I tried rebuilding "login" and then as much of /usr/libexec as > I knew how. No success, although I could have overlooked something. > Does anyone know precisely what the binaries are that I need to rebuild > in order to make my system read login.conf without any complaints, or is/was > there a patch available? Ummm, why are you rebuilding binaries? When you change 'login.conf,' use the command 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' to rebuild the datbase. If login reports trouble, could you forward the 'login.conf' to the list? > I'm also wondering whether anyone out there using xdm has gotten "sessreg" > to work right, that is, does your X session show up in "who"? I'm not very > literate in C, but I think the source code for "sessreg" says that *BSD > OS's can't use DISPLAY values like ":0" in "utmp". Perhaps this is a question > that should be directed at the XFree86 folks, but there have been a few > other usenet gripes about it. Sorry, never have tried to use 'sessreg.' How were your xdm files configuration files using it? > Thanks in advance for the input... > > > Andrew Lankford BTW, Andrew, I am not sure what MUA you are using, but a lot of your lines were greater than 80 columns in length making it hard to read. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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