Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-21 Thread carvin5string
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you did was install the system crontab as a user. Log in as the > user you executed "crontab crontab" as, and enter "crontab -r". That > will remove the crontab for that user. > > On a related note. I'm going to make some changes to that section

Re: cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread carvin5string
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system > crontab. > > The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under > which > the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's crontab, > cron interprets it as the c

cron can't find root or operator

2004-05-20 Thread carvin5string
I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of messages from cron, like this - Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root /usr/libexec/atrun Body: root: not found and Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy operator: not found What's going on with cron? T

sendmail only sends mail for root, not non-root users

2004-05-19 Thread carvin5string
(hopefully the list won't get two copies of this message) I have determined what the problem is with sendmail - only root can send mail. Here are the messages from maillog (notice the root emails are sent ok, the www emails are not) - May 19 11:40:00 www sendmail[11799]: i4JIe0nK011799: to=root,

sendmail doesn't send mail

2004-05-18 Thread carvin5string
I just got a new server up and running and need it to send mail. The rc.conf file has sendmail_enable="NO" and it does start when the system boots up. I can, as root, send a message direct from the command line and it is sent successfully. But when I try to have a message sent from a web page it er

sendmail on new install gives permissions error

2004-05-17 Thread carvin5string
I just got a new server up and running and need it to send mail. The rc.conf file has sendmail_enable="YES" and it does start when the system boots up. I can, as root, send a message direct from the command line and it is sent successfully. But when I try to have a message sent from a web page it e

Re: looks like i've dug my hole too deep, plz help quick.

2004-05-12 Thread carvin5string
to root and swap partitions. This time I will set the symlinks on /var and /tmp to /usr/var and /usr/tmp first thing after the OS installs. This should make for a very nice web server. Regards, Chip --- Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 May 2004, carv

looks like i've dug my hole too deep, plz help quick.

2004-05-12 Thread carvin5string
I may have screwed up big time - I tried moving /var to /usr/var and accidentally was in root when I ran the command tar cf - . | ( cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) now when I look at root it has some directories but no files at all. I look at /usr/var and see directories and no files. When I try to reverse

moving /var & symlink to /usr/var isn't working, now broke mysql

2004-05-12 Thread carvin5string
I am trying to move /var to /usr/var and create a symlink but it isn't working right. Here's what I am doing - mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | ( cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var I am using FreeBSD-5.2. Everything works except the rm -rf /var, I get a message that