Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: adam@FreeBSD.org, pst@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cnews fails if user "news" doesn't exist Message-ID: <199504180800.BAA11898@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504180642.XAA02768@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 17, 95 11:42:25 pm
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> > Maybe it should use "id" to check it and call adduser? > > Satoshi > ------- > ===> installing for cnews > mkdir -p /usr/local/newsspool > ln -s /usr/local/newsspool /var/news > mkdir -p /usr/local/libexec/news /usr/local/lib/news > chown news.news /usr/local/newsspool /usr/local/lib/news > chown: news: illegal user name > *** Error code 1 (continuing) > `package' not remade because of errors. You need to update the master.passwd file on your system: hookturn# pwd /usr/src/etc hookturn# grep news master.passwd group master.passwd:news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem,,,:/:/nonexistent group:news:*:8: hookturn# News has had a ``well known'' uid:gid of 8:8 for a very long time :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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