From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 3: 5:14 2003 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 1D88B37B407 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:05:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A8E43F93 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:04:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18h6JQ-0002Dl-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:04:52 +0000 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:04:51 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Terminating mail from cron Message-ID: <20030207110451.GA8185@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3E436379.22707.53C3D84@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E436379.22707.53C3D84@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *18h6JQ-0002Dl-00*RxIkB3d6bNo* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:49AM -0000, Kjell wrote: > Yesterday I was 'playing' with vidcontrol. Got a few error messages, did > a pkg_add and finally achieved what I set out to. > Ever thereafter I have been receiving an error message on the hour and > every 11 minutes: > From: operator@tina.la3sg.net (Cron Daemon) > To: operator@tina.la3sg.net > Subject: Cron /usr/libexec/save-entropy > Message: vidcontrol: not found > > How can I stop it? Running R5 Specify the full path to vidcontrol in the crontab entry that wants to call it. Remember that the environment available to cron is very restricted, so you have to add to it as you need. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message