cron job errors

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue May 23 09:14:20 PDT 2006


Mark Busby <redtick at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> I getting errors from cron on this job. 
>   owner of /usr/libexec/sav-entropy is root:wheel
>    
>   email notice:
>   Subject: Cron <operator at redtick> /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=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
>   add: not found
>    
>   crontab entry:
>   # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
> */11    *       *       *       *       operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy

Did you update your system lately?
Compare the script to its source:
    > diff -q /usr/src/libexec/save-entropy/save-entropy.sh /usr/libexec/save-entropy
    > 


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