From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 06:04:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7298F16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:04:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EFC43D6A for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:04:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 1409 invoked by uid 85); 28 Nov 2005 06:04:23 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.761452 secs); 28 Nov 2005 06:04:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.159?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 28 Nov 2005 06:04:21 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:04:05 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net> In-Reply-To: <61677.70.22.242.248.1133155746.squirrel@www.apriori.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511272104.18479.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: nospam@apriori.net Subject: Re: strange entropy (or cron) message X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:04:28 -0000 --nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, nospam@apriori.net wrote: > Greetings - > > I have an installation of 5.3 that I am enjoying, but the root mailbox is > filling up with strange messages regarding a "save-entropy" thing: > > ------------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:11:00 -0500 (EST) > From: Cron Daemon > To: operator@... > Subject: Cron /usr/libexec/save-entropy > > 5 : not found > ------------------------------------------- > > I have noticed that while still at the command line, the number "5" > sporadically appears in the boot messages; the system responds with the > equivalent of "don't know what that's for..." message. > > Anyone have a suggestion about what this is and how I should fix it? Thank > you. Carefully check your /etc/rc.conf file for something uncommented or corrupt= ed.=20 I had the same problem with This: not found and it turned out to be a line = in=20 the header was uncommented and the next word was "This". It about drove me= =20 batty until I found it. Beech =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDip3iVq19LUoGB+MRAjoTAJ95LhOrUp7weJ4308w6cQlp3iZy/ACfT1SE IqjGHZNCh8ud553E9/bqv2I= =J++E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1613287.VVcGnqcz5r--