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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:44:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ted Buswell <tbuswell@mediaone.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.5 cron and login.conf,/etc/group
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225204303.28338I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802260133.UAA24837@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net>

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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ted Buswell wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems with 2.2.5; specifically it seems that cron is
> having trouble with some of the login.conf parsing functions and
> /etc/group..
> 
> This is happening on a freshly installed 2.2.5 system.
> Appended is a snippet from /var/log/messages; and I guess I'm just
> wondering if I'm the only person whose seeing this.  If so, I'll go
> debug it but I just didn't want to duplicate someone's prior effort.

Odd it considers /etc/group corrupt AND that the path is in caps. Can you
identify?  Perhaps it's another server logging to yours?

> Feb 25 15:55:00 froboz /USR/SBIN/CRON[218]: /etc/group corrupt: invalid field
> Feb 25 15:55:00 froboz /USR/SBIN/CRON[218]: login_getcapsize: class 'root' bad value memoryuse-cur=32M

Try rebuilding the capability database by running cap_mkdb against it --
see /etc/login.conf.  ALso check /etc/group, sysinstall may have eaten it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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