On Sunday 13 Jul 2014 10:20:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2014 15:01:33 I wrote: > > 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. > > Well, a week ago I did split the two chronys (the one on the server and the > one on the workstation), but I got another mail at 03:10:05 today. So I > guess that isn't it.
Please try this: Go the PC that keeps getting these messages in its logs. Run: $ chrony chronyc> password password: <manually_enter_your_chrony_Passwd> If the passwd is wrong, or some characters are incompatible with the terminal, then you will get: "Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated" You can test this by entering the wrong passwd initially. Unfortunately, I no longer have the PC running chrony to test it here. -- Regards, Mick
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