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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:49:06 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
Subject:   Re: Odd message from cron daemon
Message-ID:  <20050227164906.GA44277@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <1244061749.20050227165831@wanadoo.fr>

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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 <operator@contactdish> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=3D/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=3D/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=3D/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=3Doperator>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=3Doperator>
>=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
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