on Saturday 04/14/2007 Mick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:09, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter:
> > > > > ===========================================
> > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or
> > > > > directory
> > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute:
> > > > > No such
> > > > > file or directory
> > > > > ===========================================
> > > >
> > > > I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my
> > > > /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis says
> > > >
> > > > exec nice makewhatis -u
> > >
> > > Hold on, I do not have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis either! My daily is
> > > just like yours. Perhaps this is something to do with vixie-cron updated
> > > yesterday. Do I need to do anything about it?
> >
> > Your email says /etc/cron.weekly so it must have existed at the time it
> > was generated. I've never seen a makewhatis in /etc/cron.weekly
>
> I've three different machines and all show the same error in dead.letter.
> Like yours none of them has a makewhatis under /etc/cron.weekly. It doesn't
> make sense to me.
I have it as weekly and I just fixed the path -- don't know why nice
was moved or what else went wrong. Seems to me it should be
weekly, anyway.
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