Re: [gentoo-user] Odd cron errors

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Tuesday 01 July 2014 12:13:39 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 10:48:12 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hell list,
> > 
> > I don't know when it started, but recently I've been getting error e-mails
> > from cron, thus:
> > 
> > Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated
> > 
> > They're all timed at 03:10:0x, i.e. one minute after cron.daily tasks are
> > run, and they occur at 7- or 8-day intervals. The only files in
> > /etc/cron.daily are logrotate and man-db, neither of which I've touched.
> > 
> > I've been expiring that e-mail folder at 30 days, so I have only four
> > instances - I've now set the lifetime to 366 days to allow a history to
> > build up.
> > 
> > Anyone have a clue to this? It's hardly earth-shattering, but it might be
> > good to find out what's going on.
> 
> Only to confirm that I have been getting these on an old 32bit laptop.  I
> suspect that they are caused by chrony which I run on this PC and some
> passwd setup that chronyc requires to connect to the timeservers and update
> RTC et al, via chronyd.  I have not looked into configuring it beyond a
> rather superficial "it'll do for now" level and have not yet added any
> chrony.keys. When I get a moment I will revisit the configuration to add
> the required key, but will need to spend some time going through the man
> pages first.

I was beginning to think I was the only one still running chrony :)

My chrony does have a key set up, so I don't think that's the cause. Now that 
you remind me, I changed the setup on 31/5. The Atom LAN server has an 
appalling hardware clock, so I changed things around so that both the Atom and 
this box synchronise over the Internet, and they peer with each other.

Maybe I should split them apart to make them independent. I'll watch them for 
a while first though, to see if a pattern emerges.

Thanks for the idea Mick.

-- 
Regards
Peter