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. > > Any ideas or suggestions?
Fix your group file. If you suspect that your system has been tampered with, rebuild it from trusted media. > If I upgrade to 3.9 will group wheel be > re-created? No, files in /etc are not touched in an upgrade. -d
