On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Gerard Seibert typed: > >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in > /var/mail/ges. > > Upon checking, this is what I find: > > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:11:01 2004 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NB0Ja029641 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) > (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NB0Qo029628; > Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) > (envelope-from ges) > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST) > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/ges> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=ges> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=ges> > > operator: not found > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 18:15:01 2004 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NF0Ja029878 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) > (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NF0pd029876; > Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) > (envelope-from ges) > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST) > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root /usr/libexec/atrun > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/ges> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=ges> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=ges> > > root: not found > > You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have > received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I > receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me?
It looks like you somehow managed to install the system crontab (/etc/crontab) as a users' crontab (/var/cron/tabs/ges). Check the output of "crontab -u ges -l". In a user crontab there's no column "run as user x", so the usernames operator and root are mistaken for commands. Ruben > Thanks! > > Gerard Seibert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
