wtf?
-Lkb
On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:44 AM, thorsten Sideb0ard wrote:
I just came across the quirkiest Solaris bug..
I installed Cricket today to monitor and graph, well.. just about anything.
Anyway, the Cricket collector runs from a cron job.
I had followed all the instructions to a T, set up a new Cricket user, and
all software seemed to have been installed fine and would run fine by
hand.
I set up the cronjob and been waiting for data to come in.. nothing. I have re-read the README and poked around in all the config files and directories - still nothing.
Finally i came around to thinking about cron. Checked for the daemon, yeah
it was running fine so i restarted it. nothing. I added another cronjob to
the Cricket user to just email me, which i had verified worked from the
command line. no email.
Finally i got around to checking the /var/cron/log file, which i should
have done earlier, but, well, you know how it is! And found this line:
! bad user (cricket) Thu Feb 3 17:25:00 2005
A quick google later tells me this was a bug (or feature) introduced in
Solaris 8, whereby if the users account has no password, or is locked out,
then his/her cronjobs wont run and it gives you this message. One passwd
later and its all fine.
d'oh.
thor
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