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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!europa.clark.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!elmira.functional.com!grail From: Giao Nguyen <grail@elmira.functional.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Gotta Love Those FreeBSD Installs Date: 1 Jul 1997 06:27:25 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 48 Message-ID: <5pa80d$svo$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <5p9v93$ncp$1@207.18.94.16> NNTP-Posting-Host: elmira.functional.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970424; i386 FreeBSD 3.0-970618-SNAP] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43749 pavanas abludo incusus <pavanas@meridio.ccia.com> wrote: > Each and every time am install is a real adventure unlike those ho-hum > sedate Linux ones. This last escapade brought up a few questions. > 1) Why does bits and pieces of the Xwindow software have group `10'? What > to do replace it with wheel or create a group `10' in group and join? > Or is there some easier way to do this? Which bits would these be? > 2) In 2.2.1 and in 2.2.2 the BSD games did not install completely or with > proper permissions. Is there a magic incantation for this? Dunno. > 3) Why would mgetty commandeer ppp and become unkillable by somehow > intwining with init? Do not recall configuring the fax set-up to fire up > at boot and continue even after pkg_delete and a few rm -r for the > remanants. That was truly weird. Dunno. > 4) And lastly when the trashing, loss or forgetting of root's passwd > occurs how do you fix it?. Single user (at least when I tried could not > use vipw) did not do it. (The time between install and adding login.conf) By any chance, did you mount the fs as writeable? It's tough changing the password when you can't write to the password table. But that's just me. mount -a then vipw. > Anyway FreeBSD is an adventure in learning. Does that imp represent the > bedevilment of installation? /stand/sysinstall worked great. And all is > now in reasonable order. I thought it was there to attract more of the female users. The "imp" looks cute to me. Say, can I interest you in a couple plushie "imp"'s? > cheers > -- > IHS > pavanas > We are but dust and shadow. > Quintus Horatius Flaccus We're tired and sleepy too. Giao Nguyen