From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 12:17:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6356515A47 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17495; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:16:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:16:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014nb6.san.rr.com To: Brett Taylor Cc: Greg Quinlan , FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > Do you have a user and group tty? I had this problem once and I hadn't > merged /etc/passwd with /usr/src/etc/passwd Not to hijack this thread, but you really don't want to merge those two files. You want to merge the master.passwd files, then do 'pwd_mkdb -p' to rebuild your databases and /etc/passwd file. The latest version of mergemaster (avail. in the ports) does this for you, and reminds you to do the pwd_mkdb at the end. HTH, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message