Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-08-01 Thread David selby
David selby wrote: Hello mate, Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things & looking for the results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it. /etc/cron.d/anacron & /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate I found this by accident. /etc/cron.d/anacron is the syst

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-31 Thread David selby
Hello mate, Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things & looking for the results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it. /etc/cron.d/anacron & /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate I found this by accident. /etc/cron.d/anacron is the system crontab /etc/anacro

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-30 Thread David selby
Stephen Touset wrote: Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it came across that. Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it s

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-29 Thread David selby
Stephen Touset wrote: Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it came across that. Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it s

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-29 Thread Stephen Touset
Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it came across that. Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it still works. Stephen Tous

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-28 Thread David selby
You might wanna chance those lines to "nice -19 run-parts --report /etc/cron.". I don't know if that's the problem, but it might be ;) Also, check in your cron directories to see if there's a crontab entry that restarts crontab. That's what's likely to be causing the problem. Crontab emails yo

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Touset
David selby wrote: Hello, I have started to get the following message e-mailed to me at night. Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /etc/init.d/anacron start +2>/dev/null X-Cro