From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 20 9:33:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from giganda.komkon.org (giganda.komkon.org [209.125.17.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6215B37B787 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from str@giganda.komkon.org) Received: (from str@localhost) by giganda.komkon.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA56335 for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:33:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:33:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Roshchin Message-Id: <200006201633.MAA56335@giganda.komkon.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of cron Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It would be nice if the original sender's e-mail is included in Cc:, because people (like myself) might not be subscribed to the particular mail-list. > From: Szilveszter Adam > To: stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Strange behavior of cron > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > Sorry for messing up some people's mailboxes. > > When I sent the original message, I just "cut-and-pasted" > > messages without shifting "From" in the first position. > > (I used regular mail in FreeBSD). > > As a result some people's mail agents could've considered > > these three included messages as separate messages. > > (Note, that I replaced the name of my host as "host". > > Normally it should be the host name of yours) > > > > Anyway, > > last night I observed the same type of messages again. > > (from cron - see an example of one message below ) > > > > It's rather strange that cron has these problems only in night. > > (second night in a row). > > Because what it tries to do gets only executed at night by default, because > it is part of the regular system maintenance routine AFAIK. Good point. Sorry, I missed it in the beginning. > > > I wonder if this could be a result of some attack against this > > host that prevents cron working properly. > > See are you sure that the command itself it tries to execute succeeds? What > happens when you issue the command 'adjkerntz -a' as root by hand? It works just fine without any complain. Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message