Re: Odd message from cron daemon

[David Fleck]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test
system:
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
This: not found
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What does this message mean?  I've never seen it on my production
system.

As a wild guess, check to see that line 29 in /usr/libexec/save-entropy 
has a comment mark at the start of it:

# This script is called by cron to store bits of randomness which are
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David Fleck
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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