user haldaemon does not exist

[philip brown]

I'm running 6.2 RC1 and I get the following error 
message (follows) when hald tries to start up.

I added a regular user named "haldaemon" with adduser
and hald all worked fine. 

I also 
1.) commented out cdrom device in /etc/fstab 
2.) made sure /media folder existed
3.) pw group mod operator -m philip as in q.19 g2 faq

so I do have a working hald installation, however I
would like "haldaemon" as a system account (ie. like
www or uucp or pop). not like a regular end user (ie.
philip david dweezil moon_unit).

I am relatively new to freebsd administration, can
somebody please advise how I would achieve this.

I would imagine on installation "haldaemon" should
have been installed?

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hald command & errormessage
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freebsd# /usr/local/sbin/hald --daemon=no
--verbose=yes
21:22:03.055 [I] hald.c:469: hal 0.5.8
21:22:03.055 [I] hald.c:534: Will not daemonize
21:22:03.058 [I] hald_dbus.c:3238: local server is
listening at
unix:path=/var/run/hald/dbus-i5eJm2AUWl,guid=7b4b6f45560823818a0104a6c75a2200
21:22:03.088 [I] hald_runner.c:116: Runner has pid
1047
Runner started - allowed paths are
'/usr/local/libexec:/usr/local/libexec/hal/scripts:/usr/local/bin'
21:22:03.101 [E] hald.c:263: drop_privileges: user
haldaemon does not exist

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Thanks and great work on getting hald incorporated
with FreeBSD.

Phil

ICQ# 126468680www.icq.com


	
	
		
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