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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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