Re: [gentoo-dev] problems with new install

[Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:09:25PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:21:19PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:
>> Hi all, I just installed a small system from a running system using
>> sys-i686-20010406.tgz
>
>Hey!  A www.sistina.com (LVM) person trying Gentoo Linux!  Thanks ;)

That's right. I am sistina's Senior Sysadmin. :-)

>
>> The first and formost thing I noticed was that syslog spitting out errors
>> everytime the logger tries to make an entry (it can't access
>> /var/log/syslog.d/ dir) so I change the perms, now it says it can't lock the
>> dir. So my syslog is still broken. 
>
>Did you extract the tarball using the "p" option? -->

Doh! Ooops. 

># tar xzvpf ...
>
>If not, then tar didn't preserve the literal directory permissions and this
>is probably causing some problems for you. 

I'll try again. 


>> Next I try to add a user using adduser and that application won't even run, I
>> get "PAM authentication failed" I did however change roots password and am
>> still able to login. 
>
>This is a relatively ancient bug that desperately needs fixing.  I'm not sure
>exactly why PAM is barfing.  If I remember correctly, it can be fixed by zapping
>a file in /etc/pam.d.

Which one, I'll try using vipw and vigr and try to login but I don't think
it'll let me, something in pam's busted for sure. I you can post a fix on the
website (A FAQ question?) that would be great. 


>I agree.  One of the downsides of doing a major development project in your
>"spare" time is that you are forced to step away from development even when
>there are little quirks like this that you know need fixing.  However, I don't
>think there are any major quirks beyond this one.

Well, I rather like the fact that it's mostly hands-on stuff, and if I can get
the authentication thing straight I can hack the rest of it.

Ports man, I love it. Finally a distro with ports.

>Achim didn't include the "vipw" and "vigr" tools in build.tbz2?
>
Didn't try them yet, but on a previous install I used useradd and that worked
o.k. but I still couldn't login with the use I added.
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