From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 12:47:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B3416A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from freek.com (freek.com [206.252.131.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F3F43D55 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dorqus@freek.com) Received: by freek.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 877399E789; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:47:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:47:10 -0500 From: dorqus To: mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040112204710.GH20470@freek.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: 5.1R, cron job "system-entropy" sending error email every 11 minutes X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:47:14 -0000 Doug Carter wrote... > The error email contains "ifconfig: not found" four times; running > system-entropy in trace mode I can see it executing commands from > /etc/rc.conf and ifconfig is bombing on these: > > + ifconfig wi0 ssid WAP1 > ifconfig: not found > + ifconfig wi0 stationname x200 > ifconfig: not found > + ifconfig wi0 wep > ifconfig: not found > > What is further odd is that these commands work fine when the system boots > and if I execute them from my shell. > > Any suggestion? Yes. Put the path to ifconfig into your shell script/cronjob/whatever. That will solve you problem. -- josh There are 10 types of people. Those that understand binary, and those that don't.