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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:33:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Igor Roshchin <str@giganda.komkon.org>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange behavior of cron
Message-ID:  <200006201633.MAA56335@giganda.komkon.org>

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It would be nice if the original sender's e-mail is
included in Cc:, because people (like myself) might not be
subscribed to the particular mail-list.

> From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
> To: stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Strange behavior of cron
> 
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Igor Roshchin wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Sorry for messing up some people's mailboxes.
> > When I sent the original message, I just "cut-and-pasted"
> > messages without shifting "From" in the first position.
> > (I used regular mail in FreeBSD).
> > As a result some people's mail agents could've considered
> > these three included messages as separate messages.
> > (Note, that I replaced the name of my host as "host".
> > Normally it should be the host name of yours)
> > 
> > Anyway, 
> > last night I observed the same type of messages again.
> > (from cron - see an example of one message below )
> > 
> > It's rather strange that cron has these problems only in night.
> > (second night in a row).
> 
> Because what it tries to do gets only executed at night by default, because
> it is part of the regular system maintenance routine AFAIK. 

Good point.
Sorry, I missed it in the beginning.


> 
> > I wonder if this could be a result of some attack against this
> > host that prevents cron working properly.
> 
> See are you sure that the command itself it tries to execute succeeds? What
> happens when you issue the command 'adjkerntz -a' as root by hand?


It works just fine without any complain.


Igor
 


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