Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:26:25 +0200 From: VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> Subject: Re: _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory Message-ID: <2cd0a0da0808291026x4f70a82dxb577fe56e503055@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0808290308r3fc3873bp2871ae55acac9078@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cd0a0da0808281058t13cae3dk93ca769ae81157c3@mail.gmail.com> <20080828181300.GG26653@dan.emsphone.com> <2cd0a0da0808290308r3fc3873bp2871ae55acac9078@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Dan Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look for to make these changes and correct this problem? Regards VJ On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dan > > Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look > for to make these changes and correct this problem? > > Regards > > VJ > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>wrote: > >> In the last episode (Aug 28), VeeJay said: >> > Hi there >> > >> > I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am >> getting >> > this message when server boots.... >> > >> > Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error??? >> > >> > _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory >> >> Do you maybe have a user account whose home directory is /dev/null ? It >> looks like program (su, maybe?) is looking for ~/.login_conf using the >> _secure_path() function. Try changing that home directroy to >> /var/empty , which is an empty directory with no write permission >> provided for cases when you need one. >> >> -- >> Dan Nelson >> dnelson@allantgroup.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > -- > Thanks! > > BR / vj > -- Thanks! BR / vj
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