Re: Mystery messages from cron

1999-05-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This is probably your machine is using NIS, right? The cron job is probably just looking up your pwent to get your home dir, etc. Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job: > > * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 > > (as an aside, it's a pr

Mystery messages from cron

1999-05-20 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job: * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1 (as an aside, it's a program that queries a pressure transducer on a serial port and dumps it's info to a file, but that's not important here) Every once and a while we get some net fla