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From: sarif@luehdorfia.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp. (Sarif Koichi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2-2-1 to 2-2-stable
Date: 25 May 1997 07:22:37 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi Univ. of Tech., Japan
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  Hi,

Gee, I have the same problem here.
I just put mail group in the /etc/group (check the /usr/src/etc/group
you see the difference). Then do
chgrp mail /var/mail
chown 755 /var/mail

Then redo the make world. It still running now. Hope its gonna work.

good luck.

<EApHs0.Kw@nonexistent.com>の記事において
wkchang@nyct.netさんは書きました。

>> Hi,
>> After installing 2-2-1 I CVSup'ed RELING_2_2, I then recompiled the
>> kernel (dont know if this is nessessary). when trying to run make world
>> in /usr/src, I get the error:
>> 
>> mtree: -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
>> 
>> mtree: unknown group mail
>> mtree: failed at line 37 of the specification
>> ***Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop.
>> 
>> I checked the file but I'm not sure what is wrong whith the file. the
>> line in the above mentioned file reads:
>> 
>> mail	uname=bin gname=mail mode=0775
>> 
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> 					Andre.