On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> wrote: > I updated many packages yesterday, including cron. Now I'm getting > messages like this from logcheck: > > Sep 7 15:20:03 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20375]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20376 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:23:01 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20492]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20493 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:24:01 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20533]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20538 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:24:02 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20532]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20540 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:24:02 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20534]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20539 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:24:02 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20535]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20537 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:24:02 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20536]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20541 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep 7 15:30:03 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20922]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20923 > failed with exit status 1) > > I have no idea what these error messages are trying to tell me. Is there > something wrong with my crontab? Cron settings changed [1], as a result, those commands launched by cron that fail (and are logged in syslog) or print information to standard output are sending mails
So go to see which scripts fails from cron entries and fix them to return 0 (when they do their work) if you don't want this message Regards, [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin-ajy5otjbovqc8upo2a_sxigayaplh8pej...@mail.gmail.com
