No group id of 'mail' ???
Tony Facca
fsfacca at LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV
Tue May 9 01:45:55 AEST 1989
I have just installed 3.1D on a 4D/70GT. When the system is coming up, I
get two messages:
mail: No group id of 'mail'
Also, each time I login, I get the same message. Here is what I have checked
so far. The message is coming from /etc/init.d/mail initially, there is
a line which reads:
chgrp mail . *
if I enter this command (as root in the /usr/mail dir) I get the message:
chgrp: unknown group: mail
so then, I checked /etc/group, where there is indeed an entry for mail which
looks like:
mail::4:root
So, whats the problem?? Any suggestions? I can change the line in
/etc/init.d/mail to read:
chgrp root . *
which would get rid of the messages, but.. what problems might this introduce?
Any suggestions, comments, etc. are more than welcome.
Also: Not running YP
No entry in /etc/passwd for mail (adding one didn't help anyway)
Previous OS was 3.1C
Thanks in advance..
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