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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Sandiford <bill@interlinks.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        tomw@provcomom.net
Subject:   pw and cron - bug in FreeBSD 3.0?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810212333330.10134-100000@ns2.interlinks.net>

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An associate and I have found what we think may be a bug in the FreeBSD
3.0 version of pw.  When running a script that contains pw from either
cron or any other facility, pw fails to operate.  For example, we have a
script that is run as root by cron every five minutes.  Every feature of
this script executes correctly except for pw.  When we run the script
manually from the prompt (logged in as root) all works correctly.  This
problem does not appear to be related to cron as we also have an inetd
process that calls the same script as root and fails on the pw sections.
Can anyone confirm or deny if this is a problem?  Has anyone else found
this problem?  Is there a way around it?



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Bill Sandiford Jr. - Systems Administrator
Interlinks - http://www.interlinks.net
sysop@interlinks.net - bill@interlinks.net
(905)404-0810


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