AT&T SysV Problem

[Dave Thompson]

H E L P !!!

We've recently upgraded from an AT&T 3b5 to a 3b15.  Ever since I
changed the system default umask in /etc/profile to 077 the sa1
shell script no longer writes to its data file in /usr/adm/sa.  I
changed the umask to 007 in sa1 and sa2 and changed the protection
on the data files so that sys can write to them, but still it
doesn't work.  Cron seems to be executing the job, but I notice
that "rc=1" is printed at the end of the line indicating termina-
tion of the task.  Is this supposed to mean something?  It doesn't
seem to be documented anywhere.  (There's rather a lot that *isn't*
documented in AT&Ts manuals.)

>From /usr/lib/cron/log:

>  CMD: /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1200 3 &
>  sys 684 c Wed Apr  6 10:00:00 1988
>  CMD: /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct
>  adm 685 c Wed Apr  6 10:00:00 1988
>  CMD: /usr/local/dateit >/dev/console
>  root 686 c Wed Apr  6 10:00:00 1988
>  CMD: /usr/lib/uucp/uu.poll > /dev/null
>  uucp 687 c Wed Apr  6 10:00:01 1988
<  sys 684 c Wed Apr  6 10:00:01 1988 rc=1

ls -l /usr/spool/cron/crontabs:

total 6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys          210 Aug 20  1985 adm
-rw-rw-r--   1 news     news         598 Jan 21 08:13 news
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys          475 Sep 29  1987 root
-rw-r--r--   1 sys      sys          117 Apr  5 13:01 sys
-rw-rw----   1 uucp     uucp         402 Jan 11 16:28 uucp

cat /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/sys

#	@(#)sys	1.1
0 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1200 3 &
0 * * * 0,6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 &
0 18-7 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 &

ls -l /usr/lib/sa:

total 53
-rw-rw-r--   1 sys      sys         1060 Apr  1 12:40 sa01
-rw-rw-r--   1 sys      sys          708 Apr  4 13:18 sa04
-rw-rw-r--   1 sys      sys         1060 Apr  5 13:00 sa05
-rw-rw-r--   1 sys      sys          708 Apr  6 03:43 sa06
-rw-rw-r--   1 adm      adm          561 Apr  1 18:05 sar01
-rw-rw-r--   1 adm      adm            0 Apr  4 18:05 sar04
-rw-rw-r--   1 adm      adm            0 Apr  5 18:05 sar05

ls -l /usr/adm/sa:

total 24
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          426 Apr  6 09:52 sa1
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          471 Apr  6 09:52 sa2
-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     sys        10564 Jan  5  1986 sadc

I note that it I execute sa1 logged in as root everything works ok.
It's only when cron tries to do it that there's a problem.  Does
anyone out there have an idea why this isn't working?????

Thanks,

(Oh, please respond by email as I don't normally read this
newsgroup.)

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