Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:43:34 -0500 From: John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com> To: Bill Sandiford <bill@interlinks.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Release and pw command - Potential Bug? (fwd) Message-ID: <199810222243.RAA03187@milo.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:26:52 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810221726130.4502-100000@ns2.interlinks.net>
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I am not sure what your crontabs file looks like, however..
`pw' is locate in /usr/sbin..
Check your path..
Better yet, include it in your script.
--John
Bill Sandiford writes:
>
> We are having a problem with FreeBSD 3.0 Release and it's associated pw
> command. We have scripts that used to work perfectly in the 2.2.x line.
> The script still works perfectly when we run it manually as root (logged
> in at the terminal) however when cron executes the script, the pw commands
> in the script don't work. We are executing the script using the crontab
> for root. We know that the script is executing because some of the
> other commands in the script are happening and working. The script is
> designed to add a new user to our system and the line with pw looks
> something like this :
>
> echo password | pw useradd username -h 0 -c "Full Name" -g group -u uid -m -d
homedir
>
> obviously we substitute a correct numeric id for uid and proper groupname
> for group, etc.
>
> We are not sure if this is a problem with our system or a bug with the pw
> command that is in the 3.0 release...we have also tried invoking the
> script from and inetd process as well.....we have tried this script on 3
> different systems and it doesn't work on any of them except when invoked
> manually.
>
> Any help please!!!
>
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