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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
