Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:10:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Desmond Lee <desmond.lee@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: still can't upgrade using make install world Message-ID: <3D521957.1060001@owt.com> References: <CMEMLGKEKMLLFOICILNMAEKECBAA.desmond.lee@shaw.ca>
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Desmond Lee wrote: > Hi Kent > > Thanks for your reply > > >>Well, it told you what to do. The user to be added is identified in >>/usr/src/UPDATING >> > >>But I won't force you to read it. You have to add to your passwrd file >>the following as one line. >> > > I've already read it... serveral times now. I'm learning freebsd for fun, > not cause i have to :) > > >>smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission >>User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin >> > >>You also have to add smmsp to /etc/group >> >>smmsp:*:25: >> > > The following line was one of the lines added to the /etc/group file: > smmsp:*:25: > > The following lines was one of the lines added to the /etc/master.passwd > file: > smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission > User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin > Did you use vipw or edit it in. If you used an ordinary editor, you have to update the password database. I did a man passwd and it listed pwd_mkdb. I never try to get that involved and simply use vipw. > > >>Then, installworld will finish your upgrade. You could also run >>mergemaster -p but I don't let mergemaster touch my group or password >>files. >> > > Actually, i was told only to run 'mergemaster' not 'mergemaster -p' > afterwards. Ha.. i already learnt not to let it mess around w/ the group and > password files :P Well, that only works on smmsp after you finish the installworld. If it is dying before then, you have to use the version in /usr/obj to do the addition. > > So, like it's not that i'm not listening to the advice i get on this mailing > list. In fact, i like this mailing list cause everyone is trying to help me > out. But the thing is, i'm following instructions, but things just ain't > going my way. So things are getting a little bit fustrating. Never the less, > I think i've set up the files right, but still can't do the 'make > installworld'. I've read this section in my book a couple times now, but > it's for beginners so it doesn't really cover some of the stuff that i've > discussed on this mailing list. > > If you or anyone else has any more good ideas,... please please help :) It sounds like you are close but still missing a few bits. It only takes one. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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