Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Eugene Rosenzweig <eugene259@××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:27:13
Message-Id: 44190417.8010105@internode.on.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost by Peter Kelly
1 Peter Kelly wrote:
2 > Hello to all.
3 >
4 > After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing
5 > the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running
6 > again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data).
7 >
8 > I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues.
9 > First, when issuing the 'su' command, I enter the password and then get
10 >
11 > peter@crichton ~ $ su -
12 > Password:
13 > configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
14 > configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
15 > configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator)
16 > configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator)
17 > configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator)
18 > configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)
19 > configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
20 > root ~ $
21 >
22 > As you can see, I still get the root shell, but I'd like to get rid of the
23 > errors. I know these 'items' are all in /etc/login.defs, but I don't know
24 > how to get pam-login to play nice. I've seen other questions answered with
25 > changes to baselayout and/or bash, so I re-emerged both of these. No
26 > change.
27 >
28 > Secondly, I've got a cron that updates nightly and mails me the results.
29 > One of the lines is
30 >
31 > diff-eix /var/cache/eix.old | Mail -s "New packages on $(hostname)" root
32 >
33 > The part I can't figure out is the 'Mail' command. Even after emerging
34 > world, I have no 'Mail' on my system. In fact, I have no 'mail' either.
35 > What I have in my world file is
36 >
37 > root ~ $ grep -i mail /var/lib/portage/world
38 > mail-filter/procmail
39 > mail-client/mailx-support
40 > mail-filter/spamassassin
41 > net-mail/fetchmail
42 > mail-mta/postfix
43 >
44 > I can get mail from the roadrunner stmp server without any problem, but have
45 > an issue with local mail. This worked for months, so I know I'm just
46 > forgetting something I did a long time ago. Any idea what I need to
47 > emerge, or where the solution may lie?
48 >
49 > Thanks. And backup tonight!
50 >
51 > Peter
52 >
53 I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash
54 but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow
55 was emerged without USE=pam? The funny thing is, my setup is ok and I
56 have none of these values in my /etc/login.defs which belongs to
57 pam-login package.
58
59 Eugene.
60
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Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost [SOLVED] Peter Kelly <linuxpete@×××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost louis brazeau <lbrazeau@×××××.com>