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 of the

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?

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 command

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:

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

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

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

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

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, carvin5string wrote: I may