Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job: * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1
(as an aside, it's a program that queries a pressure transducer on a serial port and dumps it's info to a file, but that's not important here) Every once and a while we get some net flakiness, and when this happens, I get email from cron on that machine: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00:02 -0500 do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused The problem is, where is this coming from? The both stdout and stderr from /pressure/pressureget are thrown away, so where is this message coming from? -- Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
