BSD

Dear _R3d ,

I typed your recipe at the command line as folows:
#find / -name "groupadd"

the box contemplated it for about half a minute and flashed back just bare prompt --
#

Anyway, many thanks for your benevolent intentions.

yours`
sehrguey

dear jb_bsd,

Many thanks for your kind attention.
Actually, the group creation was needed by an application other than apache but that's minor.

First step from your instruction was done some time ago following the tip from Sergiu-IT (earlier in this here thread: "Try to manualy edit the /etc/group file.")

However, the idea of checking the group (second step from your instruction) is wholly your merit.
I did as you told and the box replied "/etc/group is fine".
So, the problem is solved yet still remains my question:

Does 'addgroup' command exist at all in this release of freebsd?

obligedly and muchly so yours`
sehrguey

There's no need for a "addgroup" or "groupadd" command when:

Code:

# vi /etc/group

Does the trick just fine.

That's the beauty in UNIX. If you can edit a text file, you can configure the OS. No "regedit" or anything obscure like that.

As an aside, I usually use "vipw" to add users to my system (rather than the supplied "adduser" script or anything else invented to create user accounts).