From nemesis!uhclem@fw.ast.com Sun Apr 9 13:13:52 1995 Received: from relay1.UU.NET (relay1.UU.NET [192.48.96.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA01123 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:13:50 -0700 Received: from ast.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyktk25411; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 16:13:45 -0400 Received: from trsvax.fw.ast.com (fw.ast.com) by ast.com with SMTP id AA08912 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for uunet!freebsd.org!FreeBSD-gnats-submit); Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:17:53 -0700 Received: by trsvax.fw.ast.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.1) id ; Sun, 9 Apr 95 15:06 CDT Received: by nemesis.lonestar.org (Smail3.1.27.1 #18) id m0ry2QV-0004upC; Sun, 9 Apr 95 14:13 CDT Message-Id: Date: Sun, 9 Apr 95 14:13 CDT From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com Reply-To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org Subject: Weekly cron generates some usage and error messages FDIV021 X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >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: