From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 16:49:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC47716A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:49:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D76743D1F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:49:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) j1RGn2Oa080623; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:49:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6DBBB6439; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:49:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:49:06 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anthony Atkielski Message-ID: <20050227164906.GA44277@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anthony Atkielski References: <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: Odd message from cron daemon X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:49:04 -0000 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:58:31PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test > system: >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=20 > >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 /usr/libexec/save-entropy > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: >=20 > This: not found >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=20 > What does this message mean? I've never seen it on my production > system. The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first line of this script after the header begins with "# This". It looks like the hash mark was removed, and the shell is trying to find the "This" command and fails. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCIfoCEnfvsMMhpyURAr6JAJ9tz81tZ6HFqJhSWYl82nQTTxMn2gCfVQk7 C8h0qnJqEIFUMXST6NFUWWM= =4sN0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--