From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 11 1:23:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from maud.qbranch.se (maud.qbranch.se [212.209.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D0037B408 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from octopussy.qbranch.se (octopussy.qbranch.se [10.0.9.16]) by maud.qbranch.se (8.12.0/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f9B8NEAC015370 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:23:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4712.0 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: SV: Alarm Clock ?? related to cron job? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:23:13 +0200 Message-ID: <24D6142B7FD6304091A160450B93F2CE12D564@octopussy.qbranch.se> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Alarm Clock ?? related to cron job? Thread-Index: AcFMJG63ZTi0Irf7EdWYIABQi9aOigGCSglg From: "Mark Rowlands" To: "Dave VanAuken" Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr=E5n: Dave VanAuken [mailto:dave@hawk-systems.com] > Skickat: den 3 oktober 2001 17:59 > Till: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > =C4mne: Alarm Clock ?? related to cron job? > Occasionally have been getting a blank email (originating > from one of our Cron jobs) that just reads "Alarm Clock"=20 > and nothing else. > Have no idea what may be causing this. That rings a bell! from Freebsd-questions - this is probably a script (perl?) timing out. If that is the case and you don't want to see these messages anymore create a handler for SIGALRM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message