Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:43:15 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4A9FB9E3.6060207@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090903122532.GA1604@teddy.fas.com> References: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> <20090903122532.GA1604@teddy.fas.com>
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stan wrote:
> 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?
Try:
# su -m cricket
although the best way to examine and/or modify that user's crontab
is:
# crontab -e -u cricket
The cricket user not having a usable shell should not stop cron(8)
from running jobs, as it defaults to using /bin/sh or else the
value of any SHELL= line in the crontab for running the specified jobs.
Cheers,
Matthew
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