Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 01:49:41 +0200 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@gojira.at> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd as ntpd user question Message-ID: <20180721234941.2ojf76kxxqfhnys7@mail.bsd4all.net> In-Reply-To: <20180721220925.GA40238@www.zefox.net> References: <5b90c49f-4616-9ef7-28a1-6445137245ef@nomadlogic.org> <1532191655.1344.80.camel@freebsd.org> <4b7acbd2-0230-345c-4370-24a72d0b492a@nomadlogic.org> <1532193285.1344.83.camel@freebsd.org> <20180721174722.GA40167@www.zefox.net> <1532196850.1344.87.camel@freebsd.org> <20180721220925.GA40238@www.zefox.net>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 03:09:26PM -0700, bob prohaska wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:14:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > I can't see any way that installkernel would lead to the complaint > > about the ntpd user not existing; that check is tied to the > > installworld target. > > > My mistake. I was sleepy and in a hurry. The error message was in installworld > and my attempt to adduser ntpd concluded with an error: > Locked : yes > OK? (yes/no): yes > pw: Bad id 'ntpd': invalid > adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (ntpd). > On reboot the old ntpd set the clock and I thought all was well. > > The failure is a little surprising, is ntpd a reserved name? Why? You obviously entered the string "ntpd" instead of an integer when asked for the uid!? > The machine is re-running buildworld/installworld from a clean start, > so presumably it'll halt over the same error again. When that happens, > what's the simplest way to recover? Mergemaster is a big hammer, something > less comprehensive might suffice, even manual editing of files. In this case 'mergemaster -p' is enough. -- Herbert
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