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RE: Cron <root@mattyt> run-parts /etc/cron.daily (fwd)



On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:

> I have started getting these messages out of the blue:
> 
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> 
>   Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C) 1987-1995 Bruce Perens.
> 
>   Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C) 1987-1995 Bruce Perens.
> 
> ...and my ISP would rather that my machine doesn't continue to send out
> messages to 'root@oz.net'. 
> 
> Since there doesn't seem to be a man page or an info page and the /usr/doc
> information is very limited, can someone help me with this?
> 
> btw, what does electric fence really do? (in layman's terms :) )

Update sed, it accidentally got linked with Electric Fence.  efence is a
malloc debugger that is supposed to help trap bad memory accesses.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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