Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:11:41 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message from CRON Message-ID: <20040309111141.GA35841@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403081817560.2692@Treneq> References: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403081817560.2692@Treneq>
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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 ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com Mon Mar 8 18:11:01 2004 > Return-Path: <ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com> > 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 <ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) > (envelope-from ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com) > Received: (from ges@localhost) > 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: <200403082311.i28NB0Qo029628@BudMan.cable.rcn.com> > From: ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com (Cron Daemon) > To: ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com > Subject: Cron <ges@BudMan> 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 ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com Mon Mar 8 18:15:01 2004 > Return-Path: <ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com> > 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 <ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) > (envelope-from ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com) > Received: (from ges@localhost) > 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: <200403082315.i28NF0pd029876@BudMan.cable.rcn.com> > From: ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com (Cron Daemon) > To: ges@BudMan.cable.rcn.com > Subject: Cron <ges@BudMan> 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 > gerard-seibert@rcn.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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