From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 7 9:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from audio.gfoster.com (24-28-195-236.mf.cox.rr.com [24.28.195.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3436637B40F for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gfoster@audio.gfoster.com) Received: (from gfoster@localhost) by audio.gfoster.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f77GF9v41295; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:15:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gfoster) From: Glen Foster MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15216.5133.733796.596042@audio.gfoster.com> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:15:09 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daily reports In-Reply-To: <15216.4833.605293.191019@hip186.ch.intel.com> References: <00ce01c11f56$c90aa0d0$0d00a8c0@alexus> <15216.3657.567158.532506@hip186.ch.intel.com> <20010807105733.A95884@leviathan.inethouston.net> <15216.4833.605293.191019@hip186.ch.intel.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG o mergemaster clobbered his root: alias? John Reynolds~ writes: > > > And 1 of many things has happened: > > o a botched mergemaster(1) accidentally disabled cron. That apparently isn't > it. > > o Somehow his /etc/periodic.conf got hosed and turned off the things he was > used to seeing. > > o Perhaps he had used an alias on root's mail so that all of root's mail > (including the output of the periodic scripts) went to his personal > account. Maybe the jobs are still running, but he's not checking root's mail > but expecting them to be in his own account. In this even, the alias is > busted. > > o space aliens have infected his machine. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message