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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:12:07 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "P. U. Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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In the last episode (Jun 14), P. U. Kruppa said:
> I have to admit I have been playing around with NIS/NFS . Everything
> seems to work fine, but I keep receiving messages like this:
> 
> 		-------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:00:00 GMT
> From: Cron Daemon <operator@small.pukruppa.de>
> To: operator@small.pukruppa.de
> Subject: Cron <operator@small> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> 
> --: not found

Check to make sure you don't have a typo domewhere in /etc/rc.conf;
save-entropy reads it and so does the bootup process.  You can probably
debug it further by running "sh -x /usr/libexec/save-entropy", which
should tell you exactly the line that's generating that error.
 
-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com