Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:26:48 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: Luke Hollins <lwh@zer0.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with 'periodic' in 4.11 p-24 Message-ID: <20070913122648.GA18092@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <46E91014.2080908@zer0.net> References: <20070912120015.3113216A4E7@hub.freebsd.org> <20070912130050.GB6327@wjv.com> <46E91014.2080908@zer0.net>
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On or about Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:25 , while attempting a Zarathustra emulation Luke Hollins thus spake: > Can you post your crontab? Maybe one line has the username twice . Boy - that was the hint that helped me find the problem. How I did this I do not know, but the /etc/crontab was duplicated in /var/cron/tabs/root. That was why the 'root: not found' message occured as the normal cron doesn't use that. I still don't know how I did this - particularly after admining FreeBSD systems since 1995. Maybe I did it in my sleep. But thanks for the comment as that put me on the correct track. Bill > > Bill Vermillion wrote: > > I just updated a 4.11 machine to patch level 24. Somehow I had > > overlooked that machine earlier as it's so stable and only > > is handling web pages, secondary dns and secondary mail. > > > > I've checked everthing I can think of but now all the scripts > > that are run from the root crontab - with the user of 'root' as > > shipped in the distrubution now give me error messages. > > > > The messages are from the atrun daemon. > > > > Here is the message I'm getting just as I bounced it to this > > account. > > > > Theone difference I see in this is that the Subject line > > when viewed in mutt on the original machine has > > root?/usr/libexec/atrun. > > > > ---------------------------------- > > Message-Id: <200709121250.l8CCo0fB051558@iserv.wanlogistics.net> > > From: root@iserv.wanlogistics.net (Cron Daemon) > > To: root@iserv.wanlogistics.net > > Subject: Cron <root@iserv> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > > X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root@iserv.wanlogistics.net> > > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > X-UIDL: EO^"!?>h"!Y(@"!+&N"! > > > > root: not found > > > > ---------------------------------- > > > > I've checked everywhere I can think of. I've even added > > the MAILTO line in the crontab with an FQDN address. That didn't > > help either. > > > > It must be something simple I've overlooked or else I'd have seen > > reports of this before. > > > > The cvsup is only for the RELEASE - so nothing is there that > > would be added after the last security update to that last year. > > > > I'm sorry this is so late in time frame of 4.11 - but as I said - > > for some reason this is one server I inadvertantly overlooked. > > Normally the OS gets updated the day any security changes are made. > > > > Thanks > > > > Bill > > > > > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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