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Cc: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Cron <operator@systemname> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
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Quoting Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>:

> 	I must have dome something wrong setting up a FreeBSD5.4
> system, but I haven't a clue as to what.
>
> 	The script is called save-entropy, a great idea, but it
> acts as if lots of the configuration it needs is missing.  I do
> have ipfw running and it got all the rules I put in to it via a
> rule-setting script called in rc.conf.local but the message that
> cron generates every eleven minutes shows that something is very
> unhappy.
>
> 	For now, I simply commented out the save-entropy run for
> a bit of peace and quiet, but the entropy is now not being
> updated which is not a good thing.
>
> 	What do I need to look at to fix this properly?
>
> 	Thank you.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
>
> Date:    Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:55:00 CDT
>
> From:    operator@fqdn (Cron Daemon)
> Subject: Cron <operator@sysname> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
>
>
> ipfw: not found
>
> That repeats 15 more times.
>
>
> ------- End of Forwarded Message
>
>

Seems you have a line containing only "ipfw" in your rc.conf.
Comment it out or remove it. save-entropy relies on files specified in 
rc.conf.