This is probably your machine is using NIS, right? The cron job is probably just looking up your pwent to get your home dir, etc.
Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job: > > * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 > > (as an aside, it's a program that queries a pressure transducer on > a serial port and dumps it's info to a file, but that's not important here) > > Every once and a while we get some net flakiness, and when this > happens, I get email from cron on that machine: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 > Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00:02 -0500 > > do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > The problem is, where is this coming from? The both stdout and stderr > from /pressure/pressureget are thrown away, so where is this message > coming from? > > -- > Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept > http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
