strange entropy (or cron) message

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:29 pm, nospam at apriori.net wrote:
> Greetings -
>
> I have an installation of 5.3 that I am enjoying, but the root mailbox is
> filling up with strange messages regarding a "save-entropy" thing:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:11:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: Cron Daemon <operator at ...>
> To: operator at ...
> Subject: Cron <operator at ...> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
>
> 5 : not found
> -------------------------------------------
>
> I have noticed that while still at the command line, the number "5"
> sporadically appears in the boot messages; the system responds with the
> equivalent of "don't know what that's for..." message.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion about what this is and how I should fix it? Thank
> you.

Carefully check your /etc/rc.conf file for something uncommented or corrupted. 
I had the same problem with This: not found and it turned out to be a line in 
the header was uncommented and the next word was "This". It about drove me 
batty until I found it.

Beech
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