[16948] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8.3 issues with my sparc5 (mail and hostinfo and su -root)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Tue Jul 6 12:38:47 1999
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990706123401.00aecd10@hesiod>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:34:01 -0400
To: amu@mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko), Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu>
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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At 12:12 PM 7/6/1999 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
><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
>
Mark helped me with this one, my /etc/group file did not have a daemon line
in it. My /etc/group.local didn't as well, so I updated that too.
>> 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.
>
I am sure that I used to su -root without the space between the dash and
root. Not really a concern, just something I noticed.
How can I get the 8.3.10 release for my Sparc. I would like to not have to
fix the hesiod/bind problem every 6 hours or so.
Thanks,
Jonathan
