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Have you ever  added users to a group and  they do not have access to the rights of that group until they login again? Instead of telling them to log out and login again (sounds like MS solution?) they can type: newgrp name_of_a_group For more details read man newgrp

New version of portage adds support for licence acceptance for specific packages. sun-jdk requires now acceptance of dlj licence (in /usr/portage/licenses) If you do not want to get into more details simply add ACCEPT_LICENSE=”dlj-1.1″ to your /etc/make.conf You can also set this to ACCEPT_LICENSE=”*” but you won’t receive and error during installation of  licensed software.