----- Original Message ----- From: "D u n c a n" <drack@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Kevin Passey" <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Logwatch question > Your silence means you finally used google . > Congrats > > Dunccs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Passey" <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Redhat-List (E-mail)" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:36 AM > Subject: Logwatch question > > > Hi , > > Simple one I hope. > > What does this mean on the logwatch report produced from my RHEL3 box. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kevin > --------------------- Cron Begin ------------------------ > > **Unmatched Entries** > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ORPHAN (no passwd entry) > > ---------------------- Cron End ------------------------- > -- No - it means I've not been at work !!! Anyway you are right - I googled it and got this: ============================================ Yes it is an error. You seem to be trying to create a crontab for a user that does not exist in the passwd file. "crontab -e" tries to create a crontab for the logged in user. Look in /var/spool/cron to see what users have crontabs, as well as checking those with /etc/passwd for validity. Cron expects each user who has an *individual* crontab file to be in /etc/passwd. If your user does not have an account on the local machine this may happen. "crontab -e" edits or creates a crontab file for the current user and if that user does not have a local account it fails. It also fails if users are not permitted to create crontab entries but AFAIK with a different message. ============================================= So when I look in /var/spool/cron I have :>>amanda tmp.1868 tmp.1915 - I expect amanda to be there - next question - what are the tmp files - they are empty when look in them. Can I delete them? Thanks D u n c a n for your help and courtious guidance. Kevin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
