From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 22 15:43:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14652 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@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 PAA14569; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysop@interlinks.net) Received: from ns1 (ns3.interlinks.net [207.107.160.3]) by ns2.interlinks.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA07374; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000e01bdfe0d$09042b20$03a06bcf@ns1.interlinks.net> From: "Bill Sandiford" To: "Bill Sandiford" , "Mike Smith" Cc: , Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Release and pw command - Potential Bug? Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:40:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike thanks for your kind words. If there was an error message or a return code I would of posted it...however since there was none I didn't...Nothing comes up on the screen...syslog doesn't print anything...I have even tried redirecting the output to /dev/console so that I wouldn't miss something that happened while cron was running the script...All produce nothing except for the text that the script is supposed to print out. > >It is almost *never* correct to post to both -current and -stable. >Please pick the one list that suits only. > >> We are having a problem with FreeBSD 3.0 Release and it's associated pw >> command. We have scripts that used to work perfectly in the 2.2.x line. >> The script still works perfectly when we run it manually as root (logged >> in at the terminal) however when cron executes the script, the pw commands >> in the script don't work. > >"Help, my car doesn't work. Help me!". > >You might want to start by offering some more details. Any error >messages and the return code would be a good start. > >-- >\\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >\\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >\\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message