From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC88013877A for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F3E9E096B; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F554E0928 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X1ufd-00029N-BY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:48:13 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Odd cron errors Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:48:12 +0100 Message-ID: <280844506.WEGFKYD1Ij@wstn> Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.12.21-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: daa53da0-4da3-4469-9fe3-42525307cb8b X-Archives-Hash: 45fa2d7bf54e661163ddfeb38c30b793 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. -- Regards Peter