On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Declan Moriarty wrote:
>
> I'm on Suse 6.1. The way things get set up, the system has a
> propensity to mail me all sorts of little notes - "The system sure has
> changed recently," or "Look what I've done now" or "Look what you've
> done now". Spam. So I set options to tell it to shut up, in YaST. YaST
> is their setup program; it runs 2 dozen scripts when you change
> anything, but then I don't have to know Unix to run yast ;-)
>
> Something keeps mailing me this, however, even after being told not to,
> and it looks like an error. I wonder if it's important, or dangerous?
>
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> From root Mon Sep 6 15:19:27 1999
> Return-Path: <root>
> Received: (from root@localhost)
> by laptop.chateau.dec (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00217
> for root; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:15:04 GMT
> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:15:04 GMT
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Cron <root@laptop> test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons &&
>/usr/lib/cron/run-crons
check /etc/crontab, you'll see the line
*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons &&
/usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
>
> rm: Desktop: is a directory
Now all you have to do is follow the shell scripts to find out what's causing
the error to rm. Desktop is probably the ~/Desktop that KDE uses, stupid idea
that that was. I'm generally happy with SuSE, but am definitely unhappy with
them going with KDE. It's modelled after CDE, which has already proven to be
poorly modelled (from admin/config standpoint, it might be very well modelled
from programming standpoint).
Anyway, enough of the rant :). Look at the /usr/lib/cron/run-crons script. I
believe it calls the /etc/cron* dirs depending on their schedule.
ciao,
der.hans
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>
> This one appears to have been generated in the last half an hour, and
> all I've done is sort e-mail.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Declan Moriarty.
>
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