On or about Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:25 , while attempting a Zarathustra emulation Luke Hollins thus spake:
> Can you post your crontab? Maybe one line has the username twice . Boy - that was the hint that helped me find the problem. How I did this I do not know, but the /etc/crontab was duplicated in /var/cron/tabs/root. That was why the 'root: not found' message occured as the normal cron doesn't use that. I still don't know how I did this - particularly after admining FreeBSD systems since 1995. Maybe I did it in my sleep. But thanks for the comment as that put me on the correct track. Bill > > Bill Vermillion wrote: > > I just updated a 4.11 machine to patch level 24. Somehow I had > > overlooked that machine earlier as it's so stable and only > > is handling web pages, secondary dns and secondary mail. > > > > I've checked everthing I can think of but now all the scripts > > that are run from the root crontab - with the user of 'root' as > > shipped in the distrubution now give me error messages. > > > > The messages are from the atrun daemon. > > > > Here is the message I'm getting just as I bounced it to this > > account. > > > > Theone difference I see in this is that the Subject line > > when viewed in mutt on the original machine has > > root?/usr/libexec/atrun. > > > > ---------------------------------- > > 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=/root> > > X-Cron-Env: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > X-UIDL: EO^"!?>h"!Y(@"!+&N"! > > > > root: not found > > > > ---------------------------------- > > > > I've checked everywhere I can think of. I've even added > > the MAILTO line in the crontab with an FQDN address. That didn't > > help either. > > > > It must be something simple I've overlooked or else I'd have seen > > reports of this before. > > > > The cvsup is only for the RELEASE - so nothing is there that > > would be added after the last security update to that last year. > > > > I'm sorry this is so late in time frame of 4.11 - but as I said - > > for some reason this is one server I inadvertantly overlooked. > > Normally the OS gets updated the day any security changes are made. > > > > Thanks > > > > Bill > > > > > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
