Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
David Fleck writes: > Hmmm. Well, I don't know, but I'd try running the save-entropy script > manually and see if you can recreate the message that way. If so, add a > -x to the first line > >#!/bin/sh -x > > and run it manually again - you should be able to see what command > precedes the

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Roland Smith writes: > Could it be that the cron output is mailed to someone else on the > production machine? I checked my aliases and stuff and sent some test messages to operator, and they get through okay. Apparently it's not happening on my production box, only on the test box. > It works

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: It does. It looks identical to the same file on my production system. The only difference is that I'm not getting this mystery message on my production system. What else might cause this? Hmmm. Well, I don't know, but I'd try running the save-entropy

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:44:16PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Roland Smith writes: > > > The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first > > line of this script after the header begins with "# This". It looks like > > the hash mark was removed, and the shell is t

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
David Fleck writes: > As a wild guess, check to see that line 29 in /usr/libexec/save-entropy > has a comment mark at the start of it: > > # This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are It does. It looks identical to the same file on my production system. The only differen

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Roland Smith writes: > The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first > line of this script after the header begins with "# This". It looks like > the hash mark was removed, and the shell is trying to find the "This" > command and fails. I checked both /usr/libexec/sa

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:58:31PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test > system: > > = > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:

Re: Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test system: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Odd message from cron daemon

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test system: = From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re[2]: Message from CRON

2004-03-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:11:41 AM Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Gerard Seibert typed: |>> >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in |>> /var/mail/ges. |>> |>> Upon checking, this is what I find: |>> |>> |>> |>>

Re: Message from CRON

2004-03-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Gerard Seibert typed: > >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in > /var/mail/ges. > > Upon checking, this is what I find: > > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:11:01 2004 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: fro

Re: Message from CRON

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Kohn
Hi, On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:25, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in > /var/mail/ges. > > Upon checking, this is what I find: > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy [...] > operator: not found > > Subject: Cr

Message from CRON

2004-03-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
>From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in /var/mail/ges. Upon checking, this is what I find: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:11:01 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12