Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:32:05 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Christopher Dempsey <chris@ic.ucsb.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr, atrun errors Message-ID: <20001003013205.T25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010022030440.69104-100000@ic>; from chris@ic.ucsb.edu on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:39:00PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010022030440.69104-100000@ic>
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:39:00PM -0700, Christopher Dempsey wrote: > Thanks for the quick response on the GeForce GTS issue. A few more > questions, puhleeze: > > 1) I am getting the persistent gethostbyaddr sendmail message to root. I > am behind a firewall, and using a 192.168.x.x IP address, so it will not > be able to find a real hostname. In fact, right now all I would like to > do is only have internal mail through the LAN. Is there any way to > disable either external sendmail, or trick it into thinking that > chris@chris is a valid email/host name, or disable to root messages? Yes. But it is too late at night for me to remember. > 2) Root is also getting a cron error email every five minutes due to > atrun: > <snip> > Subject: Cron <root@chris> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > root: not found > </snip> > I have the correct crontab entry as per the atrun man page (it is pretty > specific!). Same type of questions: can I disable atrun, disable logging, > or actually fix it? A classic. Looks like the system crontab, /etc/crontab, was either copied to root's crontab or someone added jobs to root's crontab in the format meant for the system crontab. The system crontab as a 'user' field which a user's crontab does not (since it is run as the user). After the five fields specifying the time for the job appears the string 'root.' It does not belong in a user's crontab. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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