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: > > ================================================================= > > >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 > > ================================================================= > > 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 -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards
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