Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?
On Tue, May 04 2021 at 11:11:02 AM, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> wrote:
> Darac Marjal wrote:
>
>> The "IN_" prefix tells you that this is an inotify event.
>> IN_CLOSE_WRITE fires when a process _had_ the specified file
>> open for writing, but has just closed it. Perhaps you have
>> an "incron" job somewhere?
>
> I have cron do two very short scripts every @midnight, these
> run fine individually and I've not experienced any problems at
> 00:00 so I take it they run fine there as well.
>
> Other than that I have not fiddled with cronjobs at all,
> I think. (?)
>
> This is what 'ps -e' tells me:
>
> 9 ~/ppl/mats ps -e
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> ... snip
> 1149 ? 00:00:00 iwatch
> ... snip
The manpage at
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html shows log
output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch configuration and see
what it is doing.
--
regards,
kushal
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