Dear Sun-Managers,
As usual, a speedy response from a number of people out there.
Problem:
Does anyone know the who/what/where/etc pertaining to the following
message displayed at boot-up under Solaris 2.3:
! no such user as sysadm - cron entries not created Thur Jun 8 ...
This is on a newly configured SPARC 5, Solaris 2.3 just installed,
recommended patch cluster as of May 1995, bare-bones set-up at the
moment, no ethernet, SunLink TRI/S 3.0.2
We've configured several SPARC stations, including a couple of SPARC
5's, identically to this one; we've never come across this message
before. What is the sysadm user needed for? I've checked the crontab
entries and can't find anything referring to the sysadm account.
Solution:
This is a consequence of patch 101572-03. The solution is actually
contained in the README file for that patch. A brief precis is that
a crontab entry for the sysadm account is created in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/sysadm. The error/warning message is
generated when the system determines that there is no sysadm account
to go with the crontab entry.
The fix is to create a temporary entry for the sysadm account in
/etc/passwd, run crontab -r sysadm and then remove the sysadm entry
from the /etc/passwd file. Since the sysadm crontab entry is non-
critical (dealing with some obsolescent backup utilities), there is
no problem with just removing the cron entry.
Gee, I guess from now on I should read the README files for all the
patches I install, including the recommended clusters :)
Thanks to the following for their speedy responses:
Rashad Al-Yawir <Rashad.Al-Yawir@ii.uni.wroc.pl>
lorenzd@gcm.com (Daniel Lorenzini)
rangern@CIRANO.UMontreal.CA (Normand Ranger)
james mularadelis <jamesm@matrix.newpaltz.edu>
mshon@sunrock.East.Sun.COM (Michael J. Shon {*Prof Services} Sun
boudreg@mars.IRCM.UMontreal.CA (SI-Gaetan Boudreau)
lilga@srv630.Ando.Com (Dave Lilga)
Manfred Liebchen <liebchen@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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