Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:57:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Few Notes on 2.2.5-971015-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971017235447.23821C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971017204252.992A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote: > It also says when it boots up that it can't find boot.config or > boot.help. I've always gotten that; 2.2.1-RELEASE onwards. > I've always been a little surprised that the menu inviting one to add > a user doesn't mention that the group into which you want to put the > user has to be added first, if it doesn't already exist (and should > in standard cases be the same as the user name, I think). New users > aren't going to get that right, but then, why make things too easy? I've often thought that it should say something like "group doesn't exist. Add?" Plus, a lot of sits have a generic user group; I always set up such, and I never remember to put it in /etc/groups first. And I'm not all that new. I'm in favor of patching this at some point. Other opinions? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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