Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:14:12 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20090903131412.GA3053@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20090903085659.419bebfb@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> <20090903122532.GA1604@teddy.fas.com> <20090903085659.419bebfb@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:56:59AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:25:32 -0400 > stan <stanb@panix.com> 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? > > There is no native port for Cricket on FreeBSD; however, I did find > this URL: http://cricket.sourceforge.net/support/doc/beginner.html > Interersting, I have the following directory /usr/ports/net-mgmt/cricket -- 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.
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