Well, re-installing the binaries for NetBSD fixed this one, mostly.  I
still don't understand what went wrong here.  Plus, INN still doesn't work
right... it dies upon startup with :

Feb 25 00:28:54 boogers innd: ME cant fopen /var/log/news/news Permission
denied

However, the permissions of that file are: 
-rw-r--r--  1 news  news  32182 Feb 25 00:26 /var/log/news/news

so it *should* work.  (and DID, until this happened)

Strange...

> Buoyed by my recent success at getting the tape on my sparc to work under
> netbsd, I decided to move my filesystems to 4.4 format.  So I made a backup
> (which I must admit I'm not 100% confident in, hence I haven't restored it 
> yet), dropped into single-user mode, and ran fsck -c 2 on /usr (and /home
> and /usr/src, but I assume /usr is the source of the problem)

> Now, when I boot multiuser, sendmail complains that it can't open its SMTP
> socket, and worse yet, I can't log in with ANY username.  I've tried
> booting single-user and removing root's password, but no dice.

> Any idea what I did wrong, before I try and completely re-do my system? 
> Note that I did NOT upgrade / to 4.4; I wanted to make another backup of
> it first, but never got the chance.  :-(

> Some (possibly) relevant information:
> Sparc 2 running netbsd-current as of 23Feb 1996 (kernel) (binaries are current
> as of 19Feb)

> I was also attempting to move /var to a separate partition... I checked all the
> relevant permissions, and they seemed OK.  I've backed out those changes,
> but no luck.

> Help!  Am I an idiot, or just unlucky?  :-)  Thanks in advance for ANY help.

> +j

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz
riz@boogers.sf.ca.us