_secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

VeeJay maanjee at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 17:26:27 UTC 2008


Hi Dan

Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look for
to make these changes and correct this problem?

Regards

VJ

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, VeeJay <maanjee at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Dan
>
> Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look
> for to make these changes and correct this problem?
>
> Regards
>
> VJ
>
>   On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>wrote:
>
>> In the last episode (Aug 28), VeeJay said:
>> > Hi there
>> >
>> > I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am
>> getting
>> > this message when server boots....
>> >
>> > Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error???
>> >
>> > _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory
>>
>> Do you maybe have a user account whose home directory is /dev/null ? It
>> looks like program (su, maybe?) is looking for ~/.login_conf using the
>> _secure_path() function.  Try changing that home directroy to
>> /var/empty , which is an empty directory with no write permission
>> provided for cases when you need one.
>>
>> --
>>        Dan Nelson
>>        dnelson at allantgroup.com
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>
>
> --
> Thanks!
>
> BR / vj
>



-- 
Thanks!

BR / vj


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