Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Nicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>:
Bug#8010; Package autolog.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgNicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to Karl Ferguson <karl@tower.net.au>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Nicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>.   Karl Ferguson <karl@tower.net.au>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 11 Mar 1997 17:34:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 26150 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1997 17:34:43 -0000 Received: from orion.tower.net.au (HELO mail.tower.net.au) (root@203.22.233.3) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 11 Mar 1997 17:34:42 -0000 Received: from kaos.tower.net.au ([203.22.233.11]) by mail.tower.net.au with smtp id m0w4VJD-0004nMC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:25:55 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970312012126.0072fda0@tower.net.au> X-Sender: karl@tower.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:21:26 +0800 To: submit@bugs.debian.org From: Karl Ferguson Subject: autolog puts incorrect entry into /etc/crontab Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Package: autolog Version: 0.34-2 This is what autolog puts into the /etc/crontab file: #-- autolog begin 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/sbin/autolog #-- autolog end This doesn't work because the USER hasn't been specified - the entry should be like this: #-- autolog begin */10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/autolog #-- autolog end (0,10 ... aren't really necessary, to avoid clutter */10 does the job) Regards -- ___________________________________________________________________ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd karl@tower.net.au t/a STAR Online Services karl@debian.org Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___________________________________________________________________   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Nicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>:
Bug#8010; Package autolog.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgNicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to Karl Ferguson <karl@tower.net.au>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Nicolas Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>.   Karl Ferguson <karl@tower.net.au>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at 8010) by bugs.debian.org; 11 Mar 1997 18:00:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 26344 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1997 18:00:06 -0000 Received: from orion.tower.net.au (HELO mail.tower.net.au) (root@203.22.233.3) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 11 Mar 1997 18:00:05 -0000 Received: from kaos.tower.net.au ([203.22.233.11]) by mail.tower.net.au with smtp id m0w4Vhn-0004nMC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:51:19 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970312014651.0073375c@tower.net.au> X-Sender: karl@tower.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:46:51 +0800 To: 8010@bugs.debian.org From: Karl Ferguson Subject: autolog syslog errors. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Further to my previous message, perhaps a "> /dev/null 2>&1" (without the quotes) should go into the crontab file on the end of the autolog entry - when it killed a process that it couldn't send a message to to gave me an email. Regards -- ___________________________________________________________________ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd karl@tower.net.au t/a STAR Online Services karl@debian.org Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___________________________________________________________________