On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:03 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: > I'm using openntpd > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: root <daenyth@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 21:01 > Subject: cron: /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly > To: root > > > /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device > /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device > :: Stopping OpenNTPD [BUSY] [DONE] > /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device > :: Starting OpenNTPD [BUSY] [DONE] this is because the init scripts use some fancy options to set colors. This seems to be done by stty, which won't work on a fake tty like the one used by cron. I don't know why you're restarting openntpd from cron every hour though, as it's a daemon that keeps running all the time. Restarting it has no use.