Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:00:01 -0500 (EST) From: nospam@apriori.net To: "Beecher Rintoul" <akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: nospam@apriori.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange entropy (or cron) message Message-ID: <47842.127.0.0.1.1133186401.squirrel@www.apriori.net> In-Reply-To: <200511272104.18479.akbeech@gmail.com> References: <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net> <200511272104.18479.akbeech@gmail.com>
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> On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, nospam@apriori.net wrote: >> Greetings - [...] >> 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. > Carefully check your /etc/rc.conf file for something uncommented or > corrupted. > I had the same problem with This: not found and it turned out to be a line > in > the header was uncommented and the next word was "This". It about drove me > batty until I found it. > > Beech Thanks, Beech! I modified /etc/rc.conf and that stopped the weird stuff from happening. It was some weird placement of double quotes. I compared it to examples online and saw that mine looked bizarre at best. It also made me pursue getting my scrolling mouse to scroll. Not there yet, but I haven't given up! Thanks again. :-) Kind regards, -- paz.
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