From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N9N1J-00012Y-AQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF8D2E0855 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD78E07A4 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9LsP-0005SN-Sc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:53:29 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:53:26 +0100 id 0001047B.4AFEE086.00002E37 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages... Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:53:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <4AFEB84B.2010107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AFEB84B.2010107@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200911141753.24403.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4636c656-9ff6-44d4-b432-df690bc7ad0d X-Archives-Hash: 144ff1eaede8ad8db6b14099b1df3699 Jarry writes: > Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10: > ------------------ > SUBJECT: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && > /usr/sbin/run-crons > > error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line > error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line > ------------------ > > What does it mean??? I assume you are using logrotate, and have the /etc/logrotate.d/kernel file? I guess the 'compytruncate' is misspelled and should be 'copytruncate'. And 'endscript' is used after using 'prerotate' or 'postrotate', which you probably do not have. Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man page for more information. Wonko