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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:57:38
Message-Id: 200704140851.17852.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice? by Albert Hopkins
1 On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:09, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote:
3 > > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote:
4 > > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
5 > > > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter:
6 > > > > ===========================================
7 > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or
8 > > > > directory
9 > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute:
10 > > > > No such
11 > > > > file or directory
12 > > > > ===========================================
13 > > >
14 > > > I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my
15 > > > /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis says
16 > > >
17 > > > exec nice makewhatis -u
18 > >
19 > > Hold on, I do not have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis either! My daily is
20 > > just like yours. Perhaps this is something to do with vixie-cron updated
21 > > yesterday. Do I need to do anything about it?
22 >
23 > Your email says /etc/cron.weekly so it must have existed at the time it
24 > was generated. I've never seen a makewhatis in /etc/cron.weekly
25
26 I've three different machines and all show the same error in dead.letter.
27 Like yours none of them has a makewhatis under /etc/cron.weekly. It doesn't
28 make sense to me.
29 --
30 Regards,
31 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice? John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>