Damn! 10 seconds after I wrote the mail below I did sudo crontab -l
and got:
0-59 5 * * * sudo aptitude update
How the he** did that get into there?? Would it be part of a cron or
anacron update??
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:56:49 -0400
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:42:29 -0600
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
>
> > Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> > > messages in my mail this morning:
> > >
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sudo aptitude update
> >
> > You must have a crontab entry that says "sudo aptitude update".
> >
>
> Nope...nothing like that.
>
> > > It seems cron ran once a minute starting at 5:00 AM and
> > > ending at 5:59 AM .....apparently doing the same thing over and
> > > over.
> >
> > Sounds like a bad time spec in your crontab.
> >
> >
> > > I havn't added or changed anything --
> > > I am sunning Sid
> >
> >
> > $ sudo crontab -l
> >
> > $ find /etc/cron.* -type f -exec grep "aptitude.*update" {} +
This still comes up empty.
>
> Comes up empty...i.e. nothing returned. I'll have to leave it on
> overnight again and see what happens. I guess with Sid, anything is
> possible.
Frank
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