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From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: problem doing "make world" after CVSup to 2.2.2
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:17:15 -0700
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
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Robert Huff wrote:
:
> mtree: unknown group mail
> mtree: failed at line 37 of the specification
:

The short answer is to edit /etc/group and
add the following entry (look in /usr/src/etc
for the new /etc/group):

mail:*:6:

However, you may (or may not?) also have a problem
with compiling ls (in /usr/src/bin/ls).   ...


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