What's the meaning of this warning from gkrellm?

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Mon Feb 11 03:04:32 UTC 2008


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Dan Farrell wrote:
>> No one? 
>>
>> No ideas?
> Well, one.  It appears that source of the error is logrotate, run from
> cron.daily.  I would check the logrotate config, see if it's trying to
> back up something that doesn't exist or something.  
> 
> I have no idea what - if anything - this has to do with gkrellm 

these lines:

> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>> > error: firebird1.5:8 unknown user 'firebird'

apparently there is no user named firebird.  perhaps creating one would
help?  and where is this user - is it a system user or a database user
(are they the same thing when you run a firebird db?  i don't know, i'd
have to google that one.) is a good question you should be asking
yourself too.

- -d

hth


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