From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 21:30:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27611 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27606 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03911; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:30:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange syslog error messages on console In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU wrote: > Ok...this is a strange problem on my FreeBSD-2.2.2-RELEASE system. > > Every so often i get a syslog message come across the console. Since only I > have access to the console this is ok and on occasion I like to see when > someone does something bad...etc. Anyways here's the message. > > Jul 12 xx:xx:xx yoda login: login_getclass: unknown class 'root' Reference ERRATA.TXT on the 2.2.2 CD: Last minute errata: ------------------- o login as root produces "login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" on system console. Fix: If you have the source distribution installed, simply cp /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc otherwise, mount the 2nd CDROM and copy it from the live filesystem (cp /cdrom/usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc) instead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo