Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:53:51 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Sue Blake <sue2@welearn.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login_getclass unknown class Message-ID: <19980402095351.50685@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19980402113719.25471@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 11:37:19AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980401173352.19507A-100000@user.xtdl.com> <199804020125.TAA08568@darkstar.connect.com> <19980402113719.25471@welearn.com.au>
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How do,
[ cc'd to -questions, because it answers the original posters question
(in a roundabout way) and to -newbies because I think this reasonably
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On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 11:37:19AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 07:25:46PM -0600, Frank Pawlak wrote:
> > You might want to check out the errata for release 2.2.2
>
> That won't necessarily help.
>
> Why doesn't somebody just tell this guy where the file he is missing
> can be found, and leave it at that.
I think this is part of the "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." philosophy, although
(IMHO) Frank could have phrased his answer a little better.
I just went to the search engine, and put "Login_getclass" in the mailing
list search box. I looked at the results. Since this is an e-mail archive,
I know that any replies *should* have "Re: " at the beginning of the
subject line. Since I'm looking for answers to questions, I want to
ignore anything that doesn't have "Re: " at the start of the subject,
since it's probably someone else asking exactly the same question.
Result #4 is the first one that looks promising,
4.Tim Moony Re: inetd[xxxx]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
and following that link does take me to a message that explains the
problem.
For jollies, I did the same search on the web pages. The *very* first
hit was for <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.2.2R/errata.html>,
and the first entry on that page is
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, get it from the FreeBSD FTP site using this URL:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf
instead. Simply cd to /etc and then run fetch(1)> with the provided
URL.
As I've said (in e-mail to Sue), it's very easy to think "Ah, I've got a
problem, I'll just send off a quick e-mail to the mailing lists, it's so
much easier than searching." If everyone does that the lists start to
drown in a sea of repeated questions. And after a while the people that
do answer the questions (well, me, anyway) get bored of answering the same
questions, and start to ignore them.
Which benefits no one.
[ In case it's not clear: that's my opinion above, and I have no idea if
anyone else on -questions holds it. It's certainly not an 'official'
opinion of the FreeBSD project. ]
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