Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:31:07 -0500 From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "Marco Radzinschi" <marco@radzinschi.com> Cc: "FreeBDS-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Is mergemaster necessary? Message-ID: <CDEJIONOMGKHCNHBALKPMEJMCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> In-Reply-To: <20020209150719.R4513-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>
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> > Hello: > > I just updated this box to 4.5-STABLE by running cvsup and > makeworld. However, when I ran mergemaster, I must have done something > wrong, and I kept getting error messages about "daemon class not found," > and "default class not found." It doesn't look like any bothered to follow up on this part of the post. I looks like you somehow either a) you managed to toast your /etc/login.conf or b) you overwrote the /etc/master.passwd file with the default and have no login.conf. I find it hard to belive that b) was the case tho since you could still log in. > > I wasn't too happy about this, so I did an "rm -rf /etc" and restored the > backup copy I made. Everything seems to work fine now, with the original > /etc directory from 4.4-RELEASE. > > Do I really have to run mergemaster? Are there any files that MUST be > updated in the /etc directory? I do not want to screw up this box. :-) No, but you really _should_, you just need to be more careful about which files you decide to overwrite. At least you had a backup, that was definitely a step in the right direction. > > Also, how do I get rid of those annoying "hints" that show up when I log > in? Where is the hints program launching from? Many people have suggested it was 'fortune'. Although I have _never_ seen the particular message, you reference in another email, come up before. Nor can I find it in the fortune database. I'm curious to find out if you've made any head way figguring this one out. Do other accounts show 'hints' also, or just yours? > > Thank you, > > Marco Radzinschi --Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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