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

Duane Winner duanewinner at att.net
Mon Jul 19 10:11:17 PDT 2004


Thanks! Using your technique, I discovered that I stupidly forgot to put 
a '#' before one of my comments in /etc/rc.conf.



Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.
> 



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