It is recommended to run mergemaster -p prior to all installworld. - Justin On May 14, 2013 7:35 AM, "Alexander Yerenkow" <yerenkow_at_gmail.com> wrote: > That's a pretty anti-user design, when such information is pretty obscure > and spread in Updating and wiki. > You can have buildbox, which just builds worlds and install it not to > self-host system, but instead to some image / or to other disk. > And in one day all just stops working, and ask you to run mergemaster or > manually add new user (Exactly was my case when this fresh user appeared) . > Hm, even actually not asking, but simply failing with some message. > If this is pretty obvious, why not insert adding this user into Makefile, > with prompting if user actually wants to add it. > That was my point, not the way of adding user itself. > > > > 2013/5/14 Justin Hibbits <jrh29_at_alumni.cwru.edu> > >> You should run 'mergemaster -p' before installworld, as that would add any >> necessary new users to the file. >> >> - Justin >> On May 13, 2013 11:48 PM, "Matthias Apitz" <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote: >> >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > Today morning I wanted to make and install a fresh /head to an USB key >> > for further distribution the usual way: >> > >> > ... >> > # make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt >> > # make installkernel DESTDIR=/mnt KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t >> > # make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=/mnt >> > # make distribution DESTDIR=/mnt >> > >> > 'installworld' instructed me about the missing user 'auditdistd'; I have >> > read what src/UPDATING says, but can't find any pointer to the man page >> > of auditdistd(8) or in our handbook; with Don Google I got to know that >> I >> > have to add this with something like >> > >> > # pw useradd -n auditdistd -g audit -c "Auditdistd unprivileged user" -d >> > /var/empty -s /usr/sbin/nologin >> > >> > Can someone bring a bit light into this? Thanks in advance >> > >> > matthias >> > >> > -- >> > Sent from my FreeBSD netbook >> > >> > Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like >> > Apple/Android >> > E-mail: guru_at_unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave >> > WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no >> HTML/RTF >> > in E-mail >> > phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org >> " >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Alexander Yerenkow >Received on Tue May 14 2013 - 12:37:32 UTC
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