[16947] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8.3 issues with my sparc5 (mail and hostinfo and su -root)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Jul 6 12:12:41 1999
To: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 06 Jul 1999 12:12:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt's message of "Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:18:52 -0400"
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<jmhunt@MIT.EDU> (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt) writes:
> /etc/sendmail.cf: line 34: readcf: option u: unknown group daemon: No such
> file or directory
Hm. What do the following commands report?
ls -l /etc/sendmail.cf
grep '^daemon' /etc/sendmail.cf
> I used to use "su -root" to gain root access to my machine, now when I try
Are you sure that wasn't "su - root"? I think you forgot a space.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
