From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 19 9:54:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3374837BCEB for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.net) Received: from discover.siteplus.net (user-38lc8ri.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.35.114]) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11537; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:54:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks To: "Sean O'Connell" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of cron In-Reply-To: <20000619115527.M19472@stat.Duke.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sean O'Connell wrote: > I think these were supposed to be part of his mail message, but > were scrambled somehow... my mail client did it to me as well. > I think he cut and pasted them into the mail message and put enough > spaces around them that they looked like indivual mail messages. The possibility that some of his posted messages were scrambled may well be. I saw only one example in his original post, however the following three are from my machine and were definitely three separate messages. He says he received ten. > > Subject: Cron adjkerntz -a > > Abort trap > > & 251 > > Message 251: > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > Subject: Cron periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root > > Segmentation fault > > & > > Message 252: > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > Subject: Cron adjkerntz -a > > Abort trap I think it extremely odd that the two of us received such messages in the same day. Jim Weeks -------- A mind is a terrible thing to lose! How I miss mine.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message