From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 14:22:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3298B16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:22:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C36C43D9C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:22:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 21110 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2005 14:22:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 29 Dec 2005 14:22:36 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <43B3F12B.7010307@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:22:35 +0000 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: sudo TTY Unknown messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:22:38 -0000 I am getting messages from sudo concerning an unknown TTY. eg Dec 29 02:30:40 www sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/tmp/BU/svn_backups ; USER=www ; COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/svnadmin dump -q -r0:19591 /svn/private I think this is caused by not having a tty device in the root cron job. I would prefer to keep only one main cron job for my system or is that frowned upon. -- Robin Becker