From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 1:32:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD4337B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:30:58 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e938W5A68862; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:32:05 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Christopher Dempsey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr, atrun errors Message-ID: <20001003013205.T25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@ic.ucsb.edu on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:39:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:39:00PM -0700, Christopher Dempsey wrote: > Thanks for the quick response on the GeForce GTS issue. A few more > questions, puhleeze: > > 1) I am getting the persistent gethostbyaddr sendmail message to root. I > am behind a firewall, and using a 192.168.x.x IP address, so it will not > be able to find a real hostname. In fact, right now all I would like to > do is only have internal mail through the LAN. Is there any way to > disable either external sendmail, or trick it into thinking that > chris@chris is a valid email/host name, or disable to root messages? Yes. But it is too late at night for me to remember. > 2) Root is also getting a cron error email every five minutes due to > atrun: > > Subject: Cron root /usr/libexec/atrun > > root: not found > > I have the correct crontab entry as per the atrun man page (it is pretty > specific!). Same type of questions: can I disable atrun, disable logging, > or actually fix it? A classic. Looks like the system crontab, /etc/crontab, was either copied to root's crontab or someone added jobs to root's crontab in the format meant for the system crontab. The system crontab as a 'user' field which a user's crontab does not (since it is run as the user). After the five fields specifying the time for the job appears the string 'root.' It does not belong in a user's crontab. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message