From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 26 11:28: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web14804.mail.yahoo.com (web14804.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6FE737B41A for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:28:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020326192802.88827.qmail@web14804.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [198.88.119.219] by web14804.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:28:02 PST Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:28:02 -0800 (PST) From: krzysztof Strzelczyk Subject: Kernel mtree error question To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, When I tried to build my kernel from 4.4-release to 4.5-stable I go this error: mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var mtree: line 63: unknown user smmsp *** Error code 1 Hmmm... So I go out and create this user based on the above file and presto!! It works. My question is can anyone tell me what the smmsp user is for and why you have to have this user to build the kernel? -Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message