On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, J Moore wrote:
> Recently one of my 3.8 boxes has producing error messages when cron
> tries to run newsyslog. Following is the error message that arrives in
> root's inbox:
>
> newsyslog: /etc/newsyslog.conf:6: unknown group: wheel
>
>
> I checked, and sure enough, group wheel does not exist. I have no idea
> how this happened, and I hesitate to just add the group since I don't
> know what caused it to disappear in the first place.
Just an editing mistake? You should be able to find the moment it
vanished in a daily security mail. Maybe the moment and/or other
changes hive a hint.
> Any ideas or suggestions? If I upgrade to 3.9 will group wheel be
> re-created?
No, upgrades do not touch files in /etc.
-Otto
