What invokes cricket on FreeBSD

[stan]

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
> 
Thanks, hw dose that differ from just plain "su" that is without the - that
causes the new users environemt to be invoked?


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