Re: Mystery messages from cron
This is probably your machine is using NIS, right? The cron job is probably just
looking up your pwent to get your home dir, etc.
Richard Kaszeta wrote:
> Okay, on one of my machines I've the following cron job:
>
> * * * * * root /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> (as an aside, it's a program that queries a pressure transducer on
> a serial port and dumps it's info to a file, but that's not important here)
>
> Every once and a while we get some net flakiness, and when this
> happens, I get email from cron on that machine:
>
> From: root@me.umn.edu (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@me.umn.edu
> Subject: Cron <root@webster> /pressure/pressureget > /dev/null 2>&1
> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00:02 -0500
>
> do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
>
> The problem is, where is this coming from? The both stdout and stderr
> from /pressure/pressureget are thrown away, so where is this message
> coming from?
>
> --
> Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
> bofh@me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
> http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
>
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