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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:15:09 -0400
From:      Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: daily reports
Message-ID:  <15216.5133.733796.596042@audio.gfoster.com>
In-Reply-To: <15216.4833.605293.191019@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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   o mergemaster clobbered his root: alias?

John Reynolds~ writes:
 > 
 > 
 > And 1 of many things has happened:
 > 
 >  o a botched mergemaster(1) accidentally disabled cron. That apparently isn't
 >  it. 
 > 
 >  o Somehow his /etc/periodic.conf got hosed and turned off the things he was
 >  used to seeing.
 > 
 >  o Perhaps he had used an alias on root's mail so that all of root's mail
 >  (including the output of the periodic scripts) went to his personal
 >  account. Maybe the jobs are still running, but he's not checking root's mail
 >  but expecting them to be in his own account. In this even, the alias is
 >  busted.
 > 
 >  o space aliens have infected his machine. :)

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