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Re: sgi 8.2.2: cron job /etc/athena/clean_tmp_areas

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Sun Jun 14 18:21:28 1998

To: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: My message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:01:16 EDT."
             <199806142201.SAA27166@smoke-screen.mit.edu> 
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:21:23 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
 
> 
> # 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.

I can't read - that comment belongs to something else.

Also, What I said about mail from cron jobs needing to include the
name of the cron job does seem more relevant.  I'm getting mail that
claims to be from a cron job, but I can't find an entry in my crontab
listing with the matching time.  The mail is:

> From root@smoke-screen.mit.edu  Fri Jun  5 01:09:28 1998
> Received: by smoke-screen.mit.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/4.7) id BAA03334; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 01:09:28 -0400
> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 01:09:28 -0400
> From: Super-User <root@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
> Message-Id: <199806050509.BAA03334@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
> To: root@smoke-screen.mit.edu
> Subject: cron output
> 
> Fri Jun  5 01:09:28 1998
> 
> 
> *************************************************
> Cron: The previous message is the standard output
>       and standard error of one of your cron commands.
> 

(it happens daily, also at 13:09:28)

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