On 01/07/2014 11:48, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hell list, > > I don't know when it started, but recently I've been getting error e-mails > from cron, thus: > > Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated > > They're all timed at 03:10:0x, i.e. one minute after cron.daily tasks are > run, > and they occur at 7- or 8-day intervals. The only files in /etc/cron.daily > are > logrotate and man-db, neither of which I've touched. > > I've been expiring that e-mail folder at 30 days, so I have only four > instances - I've now set the lifetime to 366 days to allow a history to build > up. > > Anyone have a clue to this? It's hardly earth-shattering, but it might be > good > to find out what's going on. >
the error looks like an http error. Got any crons running wget, curl or lynx? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com