[Tech] Hourly cron emails.

[Jamie O'Keefe]

Hi Ed,

I'll create an account for you tonight.

Thanks!

Jamie

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty <mack at mackenty.com> wrote:
> I've been getting emails from the green-rainbow.org server every hour for
> months.  I not too bothered by it, but it is a significant percentage of my
> daily emails. :-)  I'd fix it, but my login doesn't work after we moved to
> the new server.
>
> The problem is with the /usr/local/sbin/periodic-snapshot script, which
> gets run every hour.  It reports a "root: not found" message, so something
> in that script is broken.  Google doesn't find anything about this other
> than my earlier mention of it.  I also get similar errors from another
> cron script at 3:30, 4:30 and 15:30.
>
> Anyone want to take a look at this, or reset the password for "mack" so I
> can do it?
>
> Here's an example of the emails I'm getting:
>
> ============================================================================
> Return-Path: <root at green-rainbow.org>
> Received: by green-rainbow.org (Postfix)
>        id 9A12D343F1; Tue,  3 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
> Delivered-To: root at green-rainbow.org
> Received: by green-rainbow.org (Postfix, from userid 0)
>        id 93B09343EE; Tue,  3 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> Message-Id: <20080603230000.93B09343EE at green-rainbow.org>
> From: root at green-rainbow.org (Cron Daemon)
> To: root at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: Cron <root at green-rainbow> root    /usr/local/sbin/periodic-snapshot hourly
> Date: Tue,  3 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
>
> root: not found
> ============================================================================
>        - MacK.
> -----
> Edmund R. MacKenty
>
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>
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peace,

Jamie
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