From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 3 13:22:58 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 40570106566B for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6528FC13 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6027B38E41; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:22:57 -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 44814355AE; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MjCHA-0000uC-00; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:22:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:22:56 -0400 From: stan To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20090903132256.GA3270@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Free BSD Questions list References: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> <20090903122532.GA1604@teddy.fas.com> <4A9FB9E3.6060207@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A9FB9E3.6060207@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 09:19:31 up 33 days, 14:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.02 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list 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 13:22:58 -0000 On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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 > OK, I was able to execute the cricket collector caoomand bu using the su - format, and it ran corectly. Cany anyone sugest what to check to see why cron is not executing this command? I see no evidence of it's running in either the cricket logs' or cron's logs. Thanks. -- 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.