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Date:      Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:04:51 +0000
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Terminating mail from cron
Message-ID:  <20030207110451.GA8185@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E436379.22707.53C3D84@localhost>
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:49AM -0000, Kjell wrote:
> Yesterday I was 'playing' with vidcontrol. Got a few error messages, did 
> a pkg_add and finally achieved what I set out to.
> Ever thereafter I have been receiving an error message on the hour and 
> every 11 minutes:
> From:       operator@tina.la3sg.net (Cron Daemon)
> To:           operator@tina.la3sg.net
> Subject:   Cron <operator@tina> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> Message:	vidcontrol: not found
> 
> How can I stop it?  Running R5

Specify the full path to vidcontrol in the crontab entry that wants to
call it.  Remember that the environment available to cron is very
restricted, so you have to add to it as you need.

Dan

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