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 436D113877A for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EFBFE0A40; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:58:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com (mail-wi0-f180.google.com [209.85.212.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36D24E08FE for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f180.google.com with SMTP id hi2so7542938wib.7 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:58:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FMypuUaTmInhHkgCheyBYuv/HNSBhCKDG9TunucF+yU=; b=BeOI5iqXkVQOldwn9gn0t7hjBzc079y4W/hTX4p+RSzSpm1FtVAVrn7N/H11EBG9zB iuCkstzTcUNTjo5EqJ49zyLrc/6n5spjfASBRlQCloe0hCFYcCV9eMzchbQ4RkTvqSB7 EhJMxP0TEG8FjGwxTvjqBuZubcBJdOy4zu/xjTJrBV1c9A+KAcNB7b1tsEyd/Kln3um5 nJGVjGpB+U7T6/mArdf9ObCZjSK11Jc28OZsCZP4bH3ebekXUGS7yykxZhTf4k3I6BHO c/PT9U5q5xi3rY6Up4yABtg5tQJ1PbkKk2yRHYEE0mxhHkIwjo41+4fwVB4Q6C/fz0p5 zFXA== X-Received: by 10.180.72.38 with SMTP id a6mr36128707wiv.29.1404212321064; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.44] ([41.85.145.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id nf11sm8215935wic.9.2014.07.01.03.58.39 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53B29431.3030604@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:57:53 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Odd cron errors References: <280844506.WEGFKYD1Ij@wstn> In-Reply-To: <280844506.WEGFKYD1Ij@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e9c9ff4-216d-4d25-9664-bd7a473e65a7 X-Archives-Hash: d99b1e632a9840717b95f3204b709ec2 On 01/07/2014 11:48, 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. > the error looks like an http error. Got any crons running wget, curl or lynx? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com