From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJlx3-0003zu-Hj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:27:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2G6QAjt025990; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:26:10 GMT Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2G6M2wo016775 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:22:03 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ppp110-176.lns1.hba1.internode.on.net [150.101.110.176]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2G6LwgE080120 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:52:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from eugene259@internode.on.net) Message-ID: <44190417.8010105@internode.on.net> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:22:15 +1100 From: Eugene Rosenzweig User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost References: <200603151620.25076.linuxpete@satx.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200603151620.25076.linuxpete@satx.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 87c31d4a-bf8b-488b-9595-a0102c150b4c X-Archives-Hash: 4967d2f0c255bf5a9449eb8f85f7c291 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list