Hi Chet, Greg, Thanks for your replies.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:22 PM PST, Chet Ramey wrote: CR> > Hi, CR> > CR> > I often get the following e-mailed to my by my system with the subject CR> > of "Output from your job <number>": CR> > CR> > ------------------------------ Delimiter BEGIN -------------------------------- CR> > CR> > sh: line 497: warning: here-document at line 494 delimited by end-of-file (wanted ``(dd if=/dev/urandom count=200 bs=1 2>/dev/null|LC_ALL=C tr -d -c [:alnum:])`') CR> > CR> > ------------------------------- Delimiter END --------------------------------- CR> > CR> > I have no idea which job could be producing this error? Does it look CR> > familiar to anyone? Any ideas on how I can track down the culprit? CR> CR> The shell thinks you have an unterminated here document. Have you looked at CR> like 494 of the script producing this error message? That's just it, I don't have any cron scripts that use here-documents. Most of my cron jobs are fairly trivial scripts less than 100 lines long. I'm running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 system, and my guess is that the system is running something on my behalf. But I don't know what. At first I was able to ignore the messages because I could not detect any anomalies. But now I've reached my threshold where the messages (sometimes up to about ten in a day) are starting to annoy me. Thanks again for the replies. Regards, -- Mun
