On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Christian Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  If you get an error from *cron* it means that greyscanner is executed
>  from cron itself.

Christian,

no, I am not running greyscanner via cron.

However, there is this entry:

# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11   *       *       *       *       operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy

which I have temporarily commented out. The thing is, in terminal, I see this:

$ ps uax | grep greyscanner
operator 84730  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     6:44PM   0:00.10
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 84999  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     6:55PM   0:00.10
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 85162  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     7:00PM   0:00.09
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 85436  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     7:11PM   0:00.09
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 85736  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     7:22PM   0:00.09
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86024  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     7:33PM   0:00.08
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86327  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     7:44PM   0:00.08
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86610  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     7:55PM   0:00.07
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 86772  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     8:00PM   0:00.07
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 87066  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     8:11PM   0:00.07
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 87377  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     8:22PM   0:00.06
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 87666  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     8:33PM   0:00.06
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88051  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     8:44PM   0:00.06
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88358  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     8:55PM   0:00.05
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88521  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     9:00PM   0:00.05
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 88833  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     9:11PM   0:00.05
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 89175  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     9:22PM   0:00.04
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 89479  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     9:33PM   0:00.04
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 89807  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     9:44PM   0:00.03
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90127  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I     9:55PM   0:00.03
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90291  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I    10:00PM   0:00.03
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90604  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I    10:11PM   0:00.02
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 90946  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I    10:22PM   0:00.02
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 91265  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I    10:33PM   0:00.02
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)
operator 91619  0.0  1.1  7928  5468  ??  I    10:44PM   0:00.01
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/greyscanner (perl5.8.8)

I can't figure out what the heck is going on;  what the connection is
between the greyscanner script and the cron errors. Note that the
above is happening every eleven minutes, just like the "save-entropy"
cron entry.

Thanks.

-- 
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam
  http://lim.nl
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