save-entropy cronjob "Added: not found" every 10 minutes

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Jul 19 09:34:42 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Jul 19), Duane Winner said:
> Does anybody know what is going on with the cronjob
> /usr/libexec/save-entropy that by default is scheduled to run every
> 10 minutes?
> 
> I'm getting tons of log mail because of this, but I don't want to
> just comment out the cronjob because it is annoying.

> Subject: Cron <operator at icebox> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> 
> Added: not found

Try changing the top line of that script to read 

  #!/bin/sh -x

, which will log every command that it runs to stderr.  You should then
be able to determine which line is printing that error message.  My
guess is something in your rc.conf is doing it.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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