From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 19:10:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C1B16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 19:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.oisca.org (mail.oisca.org [164.46.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDAF43D54 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 19:10:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pwd8jmr22w@me.point.ne.jp) Received: from future.oisca.org (165.191.192.61.tokyo.bflets.alpha-net.ne.jp [61.192.191.165]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by mail.oisca.org (8.12.11/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i4Q2ArBP019053 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:10:54 +0900 From: Bull TORS To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:08:17 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405261108.17574.pwd8jmr22w@me.point.ne.jp> Subject: '#periodic monthly' '#periodic weekly' '#periodic daily' problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: pwd8jmr22w@me.point.ne.jp List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 02:10:56 -0000 hi to everyone, I have been using my freebsd system for almost 7-8 months. I have read in my internal help documents about newbies that I should run #periodic monthly #periodic weekly #periodic daily from time to time...I still have not really grasp the importance of it but I have developed the habbit of running these commands from time to time...I think cron does run these commands for me too...but since I turn-off my laptop after work, i use to run these commands on my free time. But, for the past few weeks, I have forgotten about these commands... Yesterday, I wanted to run these commands but I encountered some problems: future# periodic monthly future# collect: Cannot write ./dfi4Q1lWFh000774 (bfcommit, uid=25, gid=25): Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue file ./qfi4Q1lWFh000774, euid=25: Permission denied future# periodic weekly future# collect: Cannot write ./dfi4Q1rFUu000854 (bfcommit, uid=25, gid=25): Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue file ./qfi4Q1rFUu000854, euid=25: Permission denied future# periodic daily future# collect: Cannot write ./dfi4Q1xS9A001139 (bfcommit, uid=25, gid=25): Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue file ./qfi4Q1xS9A001139, euid=25: Permission denied I can only say that a week fews ago, I still can no longer remember why...but I did a very not so good thing to my system...I did a #rm -rf * on my /var/log directory. After that, since i do not want to bother the list about my on wrong doing I made a list of the /var/log files on the other pc at my home and created the almost the same files from that list, which i think I have done quite but maybe not successfully. Does the errors above connection to what I did to the /var/log files? What should I do to eliminate these errors and be able to run these commands again? Thank you for any ideas and advices in advance... Bull TORS