From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 24 21:44: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-c.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.183.3.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A25F37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12473 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Oct 2000 04:43:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Oct 2000 04:43:59 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:43:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Michael Maxwell Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Empty mails from root In-Reply-To: <20001024233851.A2618@sun.segfault.lan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Michael Maxwell wrote: > Hi, > I've noticed that since I upgraded from 3.5-STABLE to 4.1.1-STABLE a > couple days ago, I have been receiving, along with the normal security- > check mails and system info mails, a blank message from root. There > is no subject line, no contents, etc... but it originates on the > local host. > > Could someone please tell me what this is for and if it's normal? Or > is this indicative of something else...? Did you mergemaster? The security run-related files changed a lot. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message