[955] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Fix the nightly sipb locker release?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jun 16 15:22:58 1993
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 15:22:36 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
To: warlord@gza.com
Cc: sipb-afsreq@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9306161636.AA07353@mary-chungs.aktis.com> (message from Derek Atkins on Wed, 16 Jun 1993 12:36:47 -0400)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 12:36:47 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@GZA.COM>
> Is someone going to fix things so that the sipb locker is once again
> released automatically each night?
I'll take a look.. What is the current state of it? Basically, there
just needs to be the rcmd.ronald-ann service key in the srvtab, and it
needs to run in cron...
Matt Power sent mail about this to sipb-afsreq on Sunday:
>Subject: project.sipb.readonly not being updated
>From: mhpower@athena.mit.edu
>To: sipb-afsreq@athena.mit.edu
>Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 19:37:12 EDT
>
>project.sipb.readonly 536872539 RO 109826 K On-line
> Creation Fri Jun 11 06:53:11 1993
> Last Update Fri Jun 11 06:53:11 1993
>
>% rsh ronald-ann -l root tail -1 /etc/crontab
>0 5 * * * root /var/usr/local/sync/synclocker
>
>% rsh ronald-ann -l root ls -lc /etc/crontab
>-r--r--r-- 1 root 508 Jun 7 20:46 /etc/crontab
>
>% rsh ronald-ann -l root 'ps ux | grep cron'
>root 390 0.0 0.3 56 40 ? I 1:42 /etc/cron
>
>% rsh ronald-ann -l root ls -lu /var/usr/local/sync/synclocker
>-rwxrwxr-x 1 root 4978 Jun 8 22:09 /var/usr/local/sync/synclocker
>
>I think the problem is that Ultrix doesn't want a username in the
>sixth field of a crontab line, as BSD does. So I think cron is trying
>to run a program named "root".
>
>Matt
I don't know why he diagnosed the problem but didn't fix it. (1/2 :-)
jik
