On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:10:55AM -0500, Robert Small wrote:
> Ok, I'm an idiot! I MUST have done something to my system yesterday. It's been
> running fine, and around 3:00pm yesterday, I started receiving emails from Cron
> "/usr/local/save-entropy" saying:
>
> *User: not found
>
> I've tried everything, and looking into everything. I've checked my master.passwd
> and group (compared 'em to /usr/src/etc).
>
> I've checked crontab (/etc/crontab), and root's crontab (empty). I've also compared
> to another 5.1 (Release) box, and everhthing is the same. Could someone point me in
> the right direction?
>
> I'm running: 5.1 Current.
>
> I even did another update, build world, kernel and merge this morning, all to no
> avail!
>
> The line in my crontab is:
>
> */11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
>
> And when I try to run it from the command line I get:
>
> /etc# /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> *User: not found
>
> Any/all help would be appreciated.
Check /etc/rc.conf for errors -- mismatched quote marks, that sort of
thing.
Run /usr/libexec/save-entropy in trace mode (it is a shell script),
which should give you some idea of where and why it is blowing up:
# sh -x /usr/libexec/save-entropy
I think you've probably covered this one already, but make sure you
have an 'operator' userid in /etc/master.passwd and an 'operator'
group similarly in /etc/group.
Run pwd_mkdb(8) to ensure that the db-format caches of the password
database and /etc/passwd are consistent with the master files:
# pwd_mkdb -p
Cheers,
Matthew
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