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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:20:05 +0200
From:      VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com>
To:        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:  <2cd0a0da0808310520i51dcb020r479c3a2219760f35@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0808291026x4f70a82dxb577fe56e503055@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:26 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 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
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks!
>>
>> BR / vj
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks!
>
> BR / vj
>



-- 
Thanks!

BR / vj



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