From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 3 12:25:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19041065672 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625328FC14 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA511F082 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:25:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-76-26-200-187.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [76.26.200.187]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4822F32647 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:25:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MjBNc-0000Ur-00 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:25:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:25:32 -0400 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20090903122532.GA1604@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 08:17:09 up 33 days, 13:19, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.08 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:25:34 -0000 On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:48:57AM -0400, stan wrote: > I have inherited a system that uses Cricket on FreeBSD to do some data > collection. I have set this up myself in the distnat past, but this time I > asked a contractor to set it up. I no longer have access to this > contractor, and the toher day, we shut down the system this was running on, > and when we rebooted the system, cricket id not resume collecting data. > > I don't see anyhting in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start it up, nor do I see > anything in /etc/crontag. I don't seen any processes owned by cricket > running. > > In FreeBSD, how is this process noramally invoked? Sorry to reply to my own message, but I have more data. I did find -rw------- 1 root wheel 288 Jan 12 2009 /var/cron/tabs/cricke Which is, I am failry certain, what is _intended_ to invoke the cricket process. However, acording to the cricket logs, the last time I have an entry is Aug 29th, which was when the machine was shut down. So, I decided to try running this command by hand. Now, to do so I need to be the cricket user, so I tried to su - cricket. I was told that this user was not avaialble. Looking in /etc/passwd. I found that this users shell was listed as /usr/sbin/nologin. I edited /etc/paswd to change this to /nin/sh, but I still get the smae error message when I try to su to that user. What do I need to change to be able to su to this suer, and might this be the reason tha it's crontab entry is notbeing run? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.