[Solved] Some problems.. (cron, sudo, mount, mpd)

Question

Hello all, glad to be back with archlinux again :)
A few errors I encountered though that I would like some help with:
I have this script here:
$ ls /etc/cron.hourly/
totalt 4,0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 2 dec 03.44 pacman.hourly.sh
$ cat /etc/cron.hourly/pacman.hourly.sh
#!/bin/bash
pacman -Sy
return 0;
Cron can't run it, errors from the log:
30-Dec-2007 00:02 initgroups failed: root Operation not permittedChangeUser failed (root): /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
30-Dec-2007 00:02 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 23281 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
30-Dec-2007 00:22 initgroups failed: root Operation not permittedChangeUser failed (root): /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
30-Dec-2007 00:22 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 10195 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
30-Dec-2007 01:01 initgroups failed: root Operation not permittedChangeUser failed (root): /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 01:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 15952 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 02:01 initgroups failed: root Operation not permittedChangeUser failed (root): /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 02:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 9428 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 02:54 /usr/sbin/crond V3.2 dillon, started
30-Dec-2007 03:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 11302 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 04:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 7751 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 05:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 16539 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 06:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 7280 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 07:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 26785 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 08:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 18862 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
30-Dec-2007 09:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 6531 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
hm, apparently it's working now? Strange.
ok, problem number 2.
I like to mount my smb shares from fstab.
//Goamania.se/Muzax /mnt/Muzax smbfs credentials=/home/willie/.smbpassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,noauto 0 0
/home/willie/.smbpassword
$ ls /home/willie/.smbpassword
-rw------- 1 root root 30 26 dec 04.06 /home/willie/.smbpassword
$ sudo cat /home/willie/.smbpassword
user=someuser
password=somepass
If I sudo mount as a user I get the following error:
$ sudo mount /mnt/Muzax
1601: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed
But no problem mounting as root, or unmounting as user with sudo.
/etc/sudoers:
$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
# sudoers file.
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
# Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission errors
# that prevent sudo from running.
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# Defaults specification
# Runas alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL
willie ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# and set environment variables.
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL
# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SETENV: ALL
# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
Oh, and a last question:
Is there someone who knows if there is a way to get mpd to play alac (apple lossless) files? Faad2 doesn't seem to support alac. :/
Last edited by WiLLiE (2008-01-03 23:21:04)

Answer 1

byte wrote:/usr/sbin/run-cron expects executable (+x) files in /etc/cron.*
Yeah, I missed that when posting the question. Seems to work now.
Still have the sudo + mounting problem though. (I'm forced to su to root to mount)
Edit:
Solved. Me being stupid, had user= in my credentials file (but it is the same credentials file i've used like a year on other dists)
Last edited by WiLLiE (2008-01-03 23:19:51)