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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unknown class root in 2.2.2-RELEASE
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:19:01 +1000
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Tony Griffiths wrote:
> 
> Ernie Elu wrote:
> >
> > I am getting the following message on the console every time I login or ftp
> > to a newly installed 2.2.2-RELEASE machine.
> >
> > inetd[150]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'
> >
> > I used cvsup to upgrade to 2.2-STABLE but I still get the same error message
> 
Acutally the real solution is to get a copy of "login.conf" and put it
in the /etc directory.  When this is done, you need to run the
'cap_mkdb' program.  Eg.

# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

Tony