Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:04:05 -0900 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: nospam@apriori.net Subject: Re: strange entropy (or cron) message Message-ID: <200511272104.18479.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net> References: <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net>
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--nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, nospam@apriori.net wrote: > Greetings - > > I have an installation of 5.3 that I am enjoying, but the root mailbox is > filling up with strange messages regarding a "save-entropy" thing: > > ------------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:11:00 -0500 (EST) > From: Cron Daemon <operator@...> > To: operator@... > Subject: Cron <operator@...> /usr/libexec/save-entropy > > 5 : not found > ------------------------------------------- > > I have noticed that while still at the command line, the number "5" > sporadically appears in the boot messages; the system responds with the > equivalent of "don't know what that's for..." message. > > Anyone have a suggestion about what this is and how I should fix it? Thank > you. Carefully check your /etc/rc.conf file for something uncommented or corrupt= ed.=20 I had the same problem with This: not found and it turned out to be a line = in=20 the header was uncommented and the next word was "This". It about drove me= =20 batty until I found it. Beech =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDip3iVq19LUoGB+MRAjoTAJ95LhOrUp7weJ4308w6cQlp3iZy/ACfT1SE IqjGHZNCh8ud553E9/bqv2I= =J++E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r--
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