Message from CRON

[Gerard Seibert]

>From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in
/var/mail/ges.

Upon checking, this is what I find:



>From ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com Mon Mar  8 18:11:01 2004
Return-Path: <ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com>
Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NB0Ja029641
	for <ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com)
Received: (from ges at localhost)
	by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NB0Qo029628;
	Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from ges)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:00 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200403082311.i28NB0Qo029628 at BudMan.cable.rcn.com>
From: ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com (Cron Daemon)
To: ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com
Subject: Cron <ges at BudMan> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/ges>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=ges>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=ges>

operator: not found

>From ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com Mon Mar  8 18:15:01 2004
Return-Path: <ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com>
Received: from BudMan.cable.rcn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i28NF0Ja029878
	for <ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com)
Received: (from ges at localhost)
	by BudMan.cable.rcn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i28NF0pd029876;
	Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from ges)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:15:00 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200403082315.i28NF0pd029876 at BudMan.cable.rcn.com>
From: ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com (Cron Daemon)
To: ges at BudMan.cable.rcn.com
Subject: Cron <ges at BudMan> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/ges>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=ges>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=ges>

root: not found

You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have
received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I
receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me?

Thanks!

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com