On Tuesday 01 July 2014 12:13:39 Mick wrote: > 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.
I was beginning to think I was the only one still running chrony :) My chrony does have a key set up, so I don't think that's the cause. Now that you remind me, I changed the setup on 31/5. The Atom LAN server has an appalling hardware clock, so I changed things around so that both the Atom and this box synchronise over the Internet, and they peer with each other. Maybe I should split them apart to make them independent. I'll watch them for a while first though, to see if a pattern emerges. Thanks for the idea Mick. -- Regards Peter
