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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Cron Sent Me This Message Today

I can't understand what this actually pretains to and how I can resolve this:

no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow
add group 'rfkill' in /etc/gshadow? No
grpck: no changes

Anyone know what's specifically is wrong with my mail server? I don't have any root or user scheduled Cron jobs but this looks like an auto script that runs daily.

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Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 267

Re: Cron Sent Me This Message Today

rfkill is a program used for tuning radio parameters for wireless card, you should however check all crontab entries to see which script could be causing it.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,546

Re: Cron Sent Me This Message Today

Check out the scripts in /etc/cron.daily

Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Re: Cron Sent Me This Message Today

When I look in /etc/cron.daily, I see:

[root@mail cron.daily]# ls -l
total 12
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  51 Sep 30 11:38 logrotate
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 807 Mar  8  2010 man-db
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  96 May 27 21:16 shadow

What am I suppose to see that would help me understand that issue? I don't see a script calling it.

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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Re: Cron Sent Me This Message Today

It may be the 'shadow' script that you see above:

[root@mail cron.daily]# cat shadow
#!/bin/sh

# Verify integrity of password and group files
/usr/sbin/pwck -r
/usr/sbin/grpck -r

Anyone know what I can do to resolve the error? I don't know why I would want rfkill or anything pertaining to wireless on my server. Can I remove this somehow?

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,546

Re: Cron Sent Me This Message Today

Use the commands vigr and vigr -s to edit the groups and gshadow files.  Use extreme care as you can easily bork a working system.

thestinger

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: Cron Sent Me This Message Today

just run grpck yourself and say "y" when it asks

add group 'rfkill' in /etc/gshadow? y

If you want to do it manually, use skunktrader's advice (vigr).

There's a bug report here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19869?s … &project=1

Last edited by thestinger (2010-11-12 21:18:56)