Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost

[Eugene Rosenzweig <eugene259@internode.on.net>]

Peter Kelly wrote:
> Hello to all.
>
> After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing
> the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running
> again.  Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data).
>
> I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues.
> First, when issuing the 'su' command, I enter the password and then get
>
> peter@crichton ~ $ su -
> Password:
> 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)
> configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
> root ~ $
>
> As you can see, I still get the root shell, but I'd like to get rid of the
> errors.  I know these 'items' are all in /etc/login.defs, but I don't know
> how to get pam-login to play nice.  I've seen other questions answered with
> changes to baselayout and/or bash, so I re-emerged both of these.  No
> change.  
>
> Secondly, I've got a cron that updates nightly and mails me the results. 
> One of the lines is 
>
> diff-eix /var/cache/eix.old | Mail -s "New packages on $(hostname)" root
>
> The part I can't figure out is the 'Mail' command.  Even after emerging
> world, I have no 'Mail' on my system.  In fact, I have no 'mail' either.
> What I have in my world file is
>
> root ~ $ grep -i mail /var/lib/portage/world
> mail-filter/procmail
> mail-client/mailx-support
> mail-filter/spamassassin
> net-mail/fetchmail
> mail-mta/postfix
>
> I can get mail from the roadrunner stmp server without any problem, but have
> an issue with local mail.  This worked for months, so I know I'm just
> forgetting something I did a long time ago.  Any idea what I need to
> emerge, or where the solution may lie?
>
> Thanks.  And backup tonight!
>
> Peter
>   
I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash 
but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow 
was emerged without USE=pam? The funny thing is, my setup is ok and I 
have none of these values in my /etc/login.defs which belongs to 
pam-login package.

Eugene.


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