Re: [cobalt-users] Cron Daily Error Message (Why...??)

[Duncan Laurie <duncan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Check the files in /etc/cron.daily.  It looks like one of those scripts may
have segfaulted and left a core dump behind which cron is now happily trying
to execute every night.


-duncan

In article <20000509090435.1920.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> Hi Group,
>
> Would anyone know what this daily cron error means and possibly how to fix it?
> This evening a Cobalt support rep worked on our machine to fix a problem with
> the web stats not working correctly. We had already installed the recent
> (.pkg) logfile rotation update, but it still did not work correctly. I'm not
> sure what changes were made this afternoon, but the stats program now works
> correctly and is spitting out reports for each user site and for the over-all
> server (something it didn?t do before). However, this error message popped up
> in my box, and I'm not sure what's the problem -everything looks okay in
> cron.daily, I?m not sure what it?s trying to tell me..(??) Any ideas or
> suggestions regarding what I'm looking for, and how to fix it?
>
> From: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Cron <root@ns1> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
>
> error: core:1 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in
> double quotes)
>
> Thanks in advance!
> David Dean
>