[3595] in testers
sgi 8.2.2: cron job /etc/athena/clean_tmp_areas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Sun Jun 14 18:01:23 1998
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:01:16 EDT
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
System name: smoke-screen.mit.edu
Type and version: IP32 8.2.2 (with mkserv)
Display type: CRM
What were you trying to do?
Let the default cron jobs run.
(in particular, /etc/athena/clean_tmp_areas)
What's wrong:
It gives errors when it tries to delete anything, because it's
using rmdir, which will only work on empty directories.
Also, when a cron job sends mail, it doesn't include the name of
the program it was trying to run. This can be deduced from the
time, but it would be nice to be told it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
From the crontab listing:
# Reorganize file systems
#
# This is probably not all that useful on public workstations.
# In addition, if we do run it, we have to make it not run over
# the AFS cache partition.
which may mean that this doesn't matter.
the mail that root gets:
> From root@smoke-screen.mit.edu Sun Jun 14 04:20:05 1998
> Received: by smoke-screen.mit.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/4.7) id EAA18439; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:20:05 -0400
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:20:05 -0400
> From: Super-User <root@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
> Message-Id: <199806140820.EAA18439@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
> To: root@smoke-screen.mit.edu
> Subject: cron output
>
> UX:rmdir: ERROR: ./.dmb: Directory not empty
> UX:rmdir: ERROR: ./.ps_data: Directory not empty
> UX:rmdir: ERROR: ./netscape-cfox/01: Directory not empty
> UX:rmdir: ERROR: ./netscape-cfox/02: Directory not empty
[...]
> UX:rmdir: ERROR: ./netscape-cfox/1E: Directory not empty
> UX:rmdir: ERROR: ./.netscape-cache-mycroft: Directory not empty
>
>
> *************************************************
> Cron: The previous message is the standard output
> and standard error of one of your cron commands.
