Due to a recent crash, some of my configuration files got screwed up. I managed to fix most of it, but I still have a couple of problems. The biggest problem is that cron refuses to work now. Whenever it tries to do something, I get entries like this in my auth.log: Jul 3 15:08:01 labatt cron(pam_unix)[27681]: session opened for user mail by (uid=0) Jul 3 15:08:01 labatt CRON[27681]: Permission denied I tried reinstalling cron, pam, and a bunch of other base packages, but no luck. /etc/pam.d/cron looks normal (I have an old backup, and it's the same). Of course, the most annoying thing about the logs is that it doesn't tell me what the "Permission denied" refers to. I d/l'ed the cron sources, but can't find anything that might generate that. - any ideas what might be wrong? - suggestions on how to find out what "Permission denied" means? The other problem is that when GDM2 starts automatically on bootup from the init scripts, X won't recognize any keystrokes. Not even Ctrl-Alt-F1. If I make it so that GDM2 doesn't start automatically, but I start it manually, everything works fine. Any help appreciated. Otherwise, I'll just have to blow away my system partition and reinstall. P.S. How can I find out what conf files a package includes? i.e. I can find out what files it has by dpkg -L, but which of those are conf files? I know I found that information somewhere before. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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