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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:45:56 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd message from cron daemon
Message-ID:  <20050227104406.B89942@grond.sourballs.org>
In-Reply-To: <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr>

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test
> system:
>
> =================================================================
>
>> From operator@contactdish.atkielski.com Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET)
> From: operator@contactdish.atkielski.com (Cron Daemon)
> To: operator@contactdish.atkielski.com
> Subject: Cron <operator@contactdish> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
>
> This: not found
>
> =================================================================
>
> What does this message mean?  I've never seen it on my production
> system.


As a wild guess, check to see that line 29 in /usr/libexec/save-entropy 
has a comment mark at the start of it:

# This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are


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David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com



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