On Friday 01 Jan 2010 14:23:20 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 02:15 +0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Subject: Cron <root@barrowhillfarm> echo test
This is not a normal cron job. This is something that you (or someone else with access to the root account) added to root's crontab. Run
crontab -e
as root, I'll bet you see a line in there that simply does "echo test"
Anders
Well, I don't remember adding this echo test job to root's crontab. For one thing, I don't think I'm knowledgeable enough. But you're quite correct, it does just output "echo test". This is root's crontab: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin MAILTO=root # # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run- crons >/dev/null 2>&1 # Backup schedule to /media/VirtualMachines: # run daily backup every day at 11.50pm 50 23 * * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily # run weekly backup every week at 11.40pm 40 23 * * 6 root /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly # run monthly backup at 11.30pm on 1st day of month 30 23 1 * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly # Backup schedule to /castor: 0 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf2 hourly 50 1 * * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf2 daily 40 1 * * 6 root /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf2 weekly 30 1 1 * * root /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf2 monthly From what you say, I can safely delete the line containing: -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run- crons >/dev/null 2>&1 ?? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org