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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:04:05 -0900
From:      Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        nospam@apriori.net
Subject:   Re: strange entropy (or cron) message
Message-ID:  <200511272104.18479.akbeech@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net>
References:  <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net>

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On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, nospam@apriori.net wrote:
> Greetings -
>
> I have an installation of 5.3 that I am enjoying, but the root mailbox is
> 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.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion about what this is and how I should fix it? Thank
> you.

Carefully check your /etc/rc.conf file for something uncommented or corrupt=
ed.=20
I had the same problem with This: not found and it turned out to be a line =
in=20
the header was uncommented and the next word was "This". It about drove me=
=20
batty until I found it.

Beech
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