From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:45:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10503 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:45:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10405 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28685; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:44:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ted Buswell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 cron and login.conf,/etc/group In-Reply-To: <199802260133.UAA24837@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message