On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 10:48:12 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.
Only to confirm that I have been getting these on an old 32bit laptop. I suspect that they are caused by chrony which I run on this PC and some passwd setup that chronyc requires to connect to the timeservers and update RTC et al, via chronyd. I have not looked into configuring it beyond a rather superficial "it'll do for now" level and have not yet added any chrony.keys. When I get a moment I will revisit the configuration to add the required key, but will need to spend some time going through the man pages first. -- Regards, Mick
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