From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 14:00:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2E76E16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:00:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@apriori.net) Received: from modena360.cwihosting.com (modena360.cwihosting.com [209.18.76.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A8743D62 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:00:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@apriori.net) Received: from apriori by modena360.cwihosting.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EgjY1-0007RZ-BW; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:00:01 -0500 Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user nospam@apriori.net) by www.apriori.net with HTTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:00:01 -0500 (EST) 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> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:00:01 -0500 (EST) From: nospam@apriori.net To: "Beecher Rintoul" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - modena360.cwihosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [688 689] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apriori.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: nospam@apriori.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange entropy (or cron) message X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:00:16 -0000 > 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 >> To: operator@... >> Subject: Cron /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.