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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jan 10 18:27:40 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:27:24 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Judson R Holt <judson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1099] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
> lorentz atrun[772]: Cannot change to /var/at/jobs/: No such file or
> directory
You should probably have a /var/at/jobs directory (/var/at should be
mode 755 and /var/at/jobs should be mode 700). That's kind of
peculiar; I don't know why it would happen, and it culd indicate that
other things are wrong. The errors you got during the install process
indicate that there might be incorrectly set permissions on your
system, and a chunk of the operating system might be missing.
> Also, is there any way to change the initially inputted NetBSD
> configuration variables short of re-installing the system?
Most of them can be changed. I don't know what you mean by the
"NetBSD reports" that you want sent to you; you can edit /etc/aliases
and run "newaliases" if you want mail sent to root to be sent to you.
Changing your IP address is sort of a pain; the files /etc/hosts,
/etc/hostname.ed2, /etc/mygate, and /etc/myname are affected.
> The other thing I wanted to ask was about being root. Never having
> been root before I don't know how to do a lot of the root-type
> things, like making a local directory which can be used by my athena
> account, and stuff like that - is there a good guide to being
> superuser someplace around or on the net?
I don't have a really good answer for this, unfortunately. You could
try looking at the *BSD faq in the comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
newsgroup.
(To make a local directory which your athena account can use, do
something like:
mkdir /u1/judson
chown judson /u1/judson
chmod 755 /u1/judson
using "700" instead of "755" if you want the directory not to be
readable by other users.)
