From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 20:45:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22148 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.interlinks.net (ns2.interlinks.net [207.107.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22127 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@interlinks.net) Received: from localhost (bill@localhost) by ns2.interlinks.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10277; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:38:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:38:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Sandiford To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: tomw@provcomom.net Subject: pw and cron - bug in FreeBSD 3.0? 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 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? ------------------------------------------ Bill Sandiford Jr. - Systems Administrator Interlinks - http://www.interlinks.net sysop@interlinks.net - bill@interlinks.net (905)404-0810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message