Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:05:56 -0600 From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> To: Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KCron error - SOLVED Message-ID: <200311120705.56528.chowse@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200311111426.49157.chowse@charter.net> References: <200311111426.49157.chowse@charter.net>
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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:26 pm, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > FBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13, KDE 3.1. > > When I click menu/system/KCron, I get an error: > "The following error occurred when initializing KCron, > No password entry for user '#' > KCron will now exit." > > I've searched using Google and searched the list archives with no joy. > There is, of course, no local documentation for KCron. > Can someone point me to the place to find out how to fix this? I found a bug report concerning this by searching the KDE list archives. KCron reads /etc/passwd on startup, and cannot deal with comments (lines preceeded by '#'.) Removing the comment lines resolved this issue.
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