Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Damn! 10 seconds after I wrote the mail below I did sudo crontab -l > and got: As I was sure that you would. :-) :-) > 0-59 5 * * * sudo aptitude update Yeah! The problem has been found! I was confident that it was in there somewhere. Glad that things worked out. >

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-11 Thread Frank McCormick
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

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-11 Thread Frank McCormick
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 <

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
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 a

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:41:20 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > > messages in my mail this morning: > > You probably have cron-apt installed

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:01:47 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > > messages in my mail this morning: > > You mean that you don't run ana

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > messages in my mail this morning: You probably have cron-apt installed. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > messages in my mail this morning: You mean that you don't run anacron when you don't leave the compuer on overnight? There are _lots_ of default scripts in /et

Weird cron behavior

2007-08-05 Thread Frank McCormick
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 Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:10:01 -0400 Hit ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid Release.