From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 16:34:41 2004 Return-Path: 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 DA78716A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7266043D49 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:34:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i6JGYeD1023697; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:34:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:34:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Duane Winner Message-ID: <20040719163439.GF41912@dan.emsphone.com> References: <40FBF73E.4030305@att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40FBF73E.4030305@att.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: save-entropy cronjob "Added: not found" every 10 minutes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:34:42 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said: > Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob > /usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled to run every > 10 minutes? > > I'm getting tons of log mail because of this, but I don't want to > just comment out the cronjob because it is annoying. > Subject: Cron /usr/libexec/save-entropy > > Added: not found Try changing the top line of that script to read #!/bin/sh -x , which will log every command that it runs to stderr. You should then be able to determine which line is printing that error message. My guess is something in your rc.conf is doing it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com