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- From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
- Subject: Re: Help, we've been bitten by the cron bug in 4.0.1!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.150613.2854@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Jul28.062413.15748@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:06:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.062413.15748@leland.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
- >I hate to have to ask this, but I didn't pay enough attention the last
- >time I saw this go by. Cron has flipped out on our 4D-240 running Irix
- >4.0.1. Every 15 minutes or so, root receives a mail message saying:
- >
- >> bin:/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11/bin/sh: is not an identifier
- >
- >The obvious solution -- killing and restarting cron -- doesn't seem to
- >help.
-
- Oops, killing cron does seem to work. The problem was that our /usr/mail
- is shared among a bunch of machines, and it was not immediately obvious
- which one was generating the cron messages, since they all ended up in
- the 4D-240's mail folder. Never mind.
-
- - David Hinds
- dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
-