Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:49:06 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Odd message from cron daemon Message-ID: <20050227164906.GA44277@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr> References: <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr>
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--/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=20 > >From operator@contactdish.atkielski.com Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005 > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET) > From: operator@contactdish.atkielski.com (Cron Daemon) > To: operator@contactdish.atkielski.com > Subject: Cron <operator@contactdish> /usr/libexec/save-entropy > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=3D/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=3D/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=3D/> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=3Doperator> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=3Doperator> >=20 > This: not found >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=20 > 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 --=20 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 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCIfoCEnfvsMMhpyURAr6JAJ9tz81tZ6HFqJhSWYl82nQTTxMn2gCfVQk7 C8h0qnJqEIFUMXST6NFUWWM= =4sN0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--
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