On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:33:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated
> world system.  I've searched this group on all of those in caps at
> gmane and got some  hits but not that I could put together into a plan
> of action.
> 
> First, where do they come from... dmesg is inlined at the end.
> 
> configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator)

These are all settings from /etc/login.defs. Although I have this file on
my system, no package appears to own it, so I suspect it is part of pam
(I removed pam many months ago). Did you update pam or shadow?


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Neil Bothwick

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