Odd message from cron daemon
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] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/ X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=operator X-Cron-Env: USER=operator This: not found = What does this message mean? I've never seen it on my production system. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/ X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=operator X-Cron-Env: USER=operator This: not found = What does this message mean? I've never seen it on my production system. 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 -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 16:55:00 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/libexec/save-entropy X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/ X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=operator X-Cron-Env: USER=operator This: not found = What does this message mean? I've never seen it on my production system. 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. Roland -- R.F. Smith /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ /No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \Respect for open standards pgpwtnSPk3nA0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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/save-entropy and /etc/crontab. The two files are identical on my production server and on my test server: same size, same contents, same modification date, etc. However, this mysterious message is being mailed to me only on the test system. I'm somewhat bewildered. I agree that it looks like a simple typo in a file somewhere, but the files are identical on both systems. What else could be wrong? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 difference is that I'm not getting this mystery message on my production system. What else might cause this? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 trying to find the This command and fails. I checked both /usr/libexec/save-entropy and /etc/crontab. The two files are identical on my production server and on my test server: same size, same contents, same modification date, etc. However, this mysterious message is being mailed to me only on the test system. I'm Could it be that the cron output is mailed to someone else on the production machine? It works OK on my 5.3 box, though. My system has revision 1.2 of /usr/libexec/save-entropy, and it is 3073 bytes. Yours should be the same, since the revision dates to Januari 2001. Is there any difference between /usr/libexec/save-entropy and /usr/src/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh ? They should be identical. somewhat bewildered. I agree that it looks like a simple typo in a file somewhere, but the files are identical on both systems. What else could be wrong? Hmmm, disk or filesystem trouble maybe? I guess that would show in the logfile. Maybe an fsck on /usr in single user mode helps? Roland -- R.F. Smith /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ /No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \Respect for open standards pgp0Lvv4iv6A9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 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 message. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 OK on my 5.3 box, though. My system has revision 1.2 of /usr/libexec/save-entropy, and it is 3073 bytes. Yours should be the same, since the revision dates to Januari 2001. Yes, that's what I have as well, on both machines. Is there any difference between /usr/libexec/save-entropy and /usr/src/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh ? They should be identical. They are the same on my machines. Hmmm, disk or filesystem trouble maybe? I guess that would show in the logfile. Maybe an fsck on /usr in single user mode helps? I have tons of SCSI errors on the test machine, for reasons unknown. I don't know if data is actually being lost or not. But even if that were the case, wouldn't I see the corruption in the save-entropy file? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd message from cron daemon
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 message. That did it! The error was a missing newline in my modified version of rc.conf. Thanks! -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Message from CRON
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: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root/usr/libexec/atrun [...] root: not found You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] did you modify your /etc/crontab? #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command */5 * * * * root/usr/libexec/atrun */11* * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy It looks like you have an additional column in these lines, so that cron thinks root and operator are commands to execute. HTH, Andreas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Message from CRON
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: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NB0Ja029641 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NB0Qo029628; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ges) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/ges X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=ges X-Cron-Env: USER=ges operator: not found From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:15:01 2004 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NF0Ja029878 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NF0pd029876; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ges) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root/usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/ges X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=ges X-Cron-Env: USER=ges root: not found You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me? It looks like you somehow managed to install the system crontab (/etc/crontab) as a users' crontab (/var/cron/tabs/ges). Check the output of crontab -u ges -l. In a user crontab there's no column run as user x, so the usernames operator and root are mistaken for commands. Ruben Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Message from CRON
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: | | | | 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 (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NB0Ja029641 | for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) | (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) | by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NB0Qo029628; | Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) | (envelope-from ges) | Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) | Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy | X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh | X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin | X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/ges | X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=ges | X-Cron-Env: USER=ges | | operator: not found | | From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:15:01 2004 | Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) | by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NF0Ja029878 | for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) | (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) | by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NF0pd029876; | Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) | (envelope-from ges) | Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) | Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun | X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh | X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin | X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/ges | X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=ges | X-Cron-Env: USER=ges | | root: not found | | You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have | received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I | receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me? | |It looks like you somehow managed to install the system crontab |(/etc/crontab) as a users' crontab (/var/cron/tabs/ges). Check the |output of crontab -u ges -l. |In a user crontab there's no column run as user x, so the usernames |operator and root are mistaken for commands. | |Ruben | | | Thanks! | | Gerard Seibert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ___ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply Separator ** Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:21:44 PM Ya, that was it. I have no idea how I managed that though. I never touch the cron - I have no reason to. Gerard Seibert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message from CRON
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 (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NB0Ja029641 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NB0Qo029628; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ges) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/ges X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=ges X-Cron-Env: USER=ges operator: not found From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:15:01 2004 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NF0Ja029878 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NF0pd029876; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ges) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/home/ges X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=ges X-Cron-Env: USER=ges root: not found You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
