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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:12:13 -0400
From:      "Joshua M. Free" <josh@jlc.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        leonardc9@usa.net
Subject:   Re: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'?
Message-ID:  <19970615211213.57282@verdi.jlc.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970614141058.006982a0@pop.slip.net>; from Leonard on Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 02:10:58PM -0700
References:  <3.0.1.32.19970614141058.006982a0@pop.slip.net>

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On Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 02:10:58PM -0700, Leonard wrote:
> Every now and then, I get the message "login_getclass: unknown class
> 'root'" on my console.  From searching the mailing list archives, someone
> said that to fix this problem, you have to copy /usr/src/etc/login.conf to
> /etc/login.conf.  However, I only installed the base user installation with
> the kernel sources, and my src directory doesn't have an etc directory in
> there.

Then install the miscellaneous etc files.

as root run /stand/sysinstall.
Select: Configure, Distributions, Custom, src, etc, FTP, Primary Site..

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