What invokes cricket on FreeBSD

[Jerry]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:41:07 -0400
stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:33:35AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > > > stan wrote:
> > > > > 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?
> > > > 
> > > > Try:
> > > > 
> > > >    # su -m cricket
> > > > 
> > > > although the best way to examine and/or modify that user's
> > > > crontab is:
> > > > 
> > > >    # crontab -e -u cricket
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > OK, I was able to execute the cricket collector caoomand bu using
> > > the su - format, and it ran corectly. 
> > > 
> > > Cany anyone sugest what to check to see why cron is not executing
> > > this command? I see no evidence of it's running in either the
> > > cricket logs' or cron's logs.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > Repkying to my own message again :-(
> > 
> > 
> > OK, I found in the cron man page the following:
> > 
> >  Before running a command from a per-account crontab file, cron
> >  checks the status of the account with pam(3) and skips the command
> > if the account is unavailable, e.g., locked out or expired.
> > 
> > So, now the question is, how do I unlock that user?
> > 
> This gets strnager. I found the pw cammand, which should do thatm but:
> 
> pnoc# pw unlock cricket
> pw: user 'cricket' is not locked
> 
> So, how come:
> 
> pnoc# su - cricket
> This account is currently not available.

Something appears to be broken. You might try a new installation. The
port creates the user and group if it does not exist.

1) pkg-delete -dfv cricket-1.0.5_5
2) Use pw to delete any reference to cricket
3) Then install cricket via the port


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Jerry
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