I had the same issue, although I did run etc-update. Unfortunately I cannot recall if I deleted the old file or the update. Regardless of that, you will find that the lines causing the output are in /etc/login.defs. Against my better judgment I just commented them out and figure that I will deal with the issue later. David On Wednesday 15 March 2006 05:16 pm, Eric Bliss wrote: > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 14:03, Mark Haney wrote: > > Ever since doing a world update yesterday I've been seeing these > > messages when I su: > > > > 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) > > > > What's the deal? > > Somebody just had this problem yesterday on the gentoo-users list - turned > out they forgot to run their etc-updates. Try checking on that. > > -- > Eric Bliss > systems design and integration, > CreativeCow.Net -- [email protected] mailing list
