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Subject: Weekly cron generates some usage and error messages	FDIV021
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>Number:         326
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Weekly cron generates some usage and error messages	FDIV021
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr  9 13:20:55 1995
>Closed-Date:    Mon Feb 24 18:57:12 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb 24 19:05:01 PST 1997
>Originator:     Frank Durda IV
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386
All distributions except X present.


>Description:

[FDIV021]

When weekly cron runs on a system that has everything except X11 installed,
you get mail that says:

	weekly run output
	Rotating messages:
***	cat: /var/run/syslog.pid: no such file or directory
***	usage: kill [-l] [-sig] pid...
	Rotating cron log:
***	/usr/X11R6/man/whatis.tmp no such file or directory


>How-To-Repeat:

Install system. I downloaded all but X, but this may not be a requirement.
Allow cron to run /etc/weekly.


>Fix:
	

*END*

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: closed->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 30 12:51:33 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 30 12:55:10 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Whoops, wrong state last time. Sorry. 

There are 2 issues here. First, syslogd wasn't running. so 
when an attempt was made to send a signal to it, it couldn't 
find the PID file, producing the first 2 lines of error 
messages. Why syslogd died is not clear, and may not be an issue 
with more recent systems which are more stable. 

The second probably is a bug in makewhatis, in your case it seemed 
to think that it needed a /usr/X11R6/man. Can you still reproduce the 
problem on any more recent versions of FreeBSD? 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 24 18:57:12 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in rev 1.20 of /etc/weekly. 
>Unformatted:


