Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/20/2017 11:59 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc but the only line in my own crontab is a shell script that runs every minute. When I run that script manually, from the command line, it yelds no error or warning. At thi

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/20/2017 11:59 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... > > - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. > - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: > > crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.e

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 08:57 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:37:55 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > What else can I try? > > Probably not helpful, but I gave up on linux and scanners > a long time ago. I run my Windows virtual machine to access > my network scanner now a

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread stan
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:37:55 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have a Brother DCP-7055W all-in-one laser printer and scanner, > connected by Wifi to my LAN. The printer works perfectly, and the > scanner worked at least up until a couple of weeks ago when I last > used it. Now, it seems to hav

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread William Oliver
I have an HP color laser writer/scanner that I connect to via wireless. I find that it becomes unusable if I don't use it after awhile. I went over to the room where the scanner is and noticed that it worked great until the power saving feature turned on. My problem is that my linux box can tal

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread stan
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:59:17 +0200 "M. Fioretti" wrote: > Greetings, > > a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... > > - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. > - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: > >crond: No configuration file found a

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Peter Gueckel
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have a Brother DCP-7055W all-in-one laser printer and scanner, > connected by Wifi to my LAN. The printer works perfectly, and the > scanner worked at least up until a couple of weeks ago when I last used > it. Now, it seems to have disappeared. Both simple-scan a

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Apr2017 08:59, M. Fioretti wrote: a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc but th

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Doug
On 04/21/2017 08:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:37:55 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: What else can I try? Probably not helpful, but I gave up on linux and scanners a long time ago. I run my Windows virtual machine to access my network scanner now and save the scanned image

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 21 April 2017, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > What else can I try? Older kernel? Though I thought everything to do with scanners came from the sane package (so check RPMs log for changes), perhaps it's an interface problem? (USB?) Reboot the scanner, unplug the power and har

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 14:49 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 2017-04-21 at 13:37:55 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I have a Brother DCP-7055W all-in-one laser printer and scanner, > > connected by Wifi to my LAN. The printer works perfectly, and the > > scanner worked at least up until a couple

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:37:55 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > What else can I try? Probably not helpful, but I gave up on linux and scanners a long time ago. I run my Windows virtual machine to access my network scanner now and save the scanned images to a share that lives native back on the li

Re: The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2017-04-21 at 13:37:55 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have a Brother DCP-7055W all-in-one laser printer and scanner, > connected by Wifi to my LAN. The printer works perfectly, and the > scanner worked at least up until a couple of weeks ago when I last used > it. Now, it seems to have disappea

The Case of the Disappearing Scanner

2017-04-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a Brother DCP-7055W all-in-one laser printer and scanner, connected by Wifi to my LAN. The printer works perfectly, and the scanner worked at least up until a couple of weeks ago when I last used it. Now, it seems to have disappeared. Both simple-scan and scanimage report no scanners found.

crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc but the only line in my own cron