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 A078213877A for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F344BE0B05; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f49.google.com (mail-oa0-f49.google.com [209.85.219.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9185E0922 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id i7so10429703oag.36 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:12:34 -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=CNs/LTzoVIPfZQWkrVxUjD9AU0m8Xqk1Sdhqn0DLg5Q=; b=VPAbycFTtZE7CqAONDfEEuo7XXsWU2O62Y5eITt/KAQ2MhI00vn86RkHv9Ltlrp1An 1/ezbV65jKhXjyNXWwqquZw9C9uA51o32ZJXRkI88N17xknf01RmJUDpFvKFMNSCqBFW 18W2TycWGbxRCK6XUqaDLf6lT3TDXzxso9inHg7oPlSwkXqcrMU2JWvLRZt0hK32Bfmn 3466yllLwjPzqo5GRc/EK/zUckiNxrPXSvsxOwE+Nd8ALwJ2hKE7BZPEp8Jr3nnyTvat Mm2y7FTS/Xhup3/IvRG1SVNcc3Yx/dmf0PKqywjt54FlHs8HTSgNYr60ipSHZH1+WleC Br3Q== X-Received: by 10.60.94.169 with SMTP id dd9mr49290905oeb.58.1404220354057; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-95-206.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.95.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id g3sm43016834obd.18.2014.07.01.06.12.33 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53B2B3C0.5050805@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:12:32 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 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> <53B29431.3030604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53B29431.3030604@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c0ae4548-7566-4422-9cb8-74368edf58ee X-Archives-Hash: 1e4ef0cdf36796bd4940b6e1afd999a7 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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? > > > As many may recall, I set my system to do emails recently too. I also started getting this error. The subject line is this: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-c Content of email is same as the OP posted. I'm hoping that the subject line will shed some light on this. It seem cron at least triggers a error of some sort. Dale :-) :-)