Re: [gentoo-user] Odd cron errors

[Mick]

On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 10:48:12 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hell list,
>
> I don't know when it started, but recently I've been getting error e-mails
> from cron, thus:
>
> Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated
>
> They're all timed at 03:10:0x, i.e. one minute after cron.daily tasks are
> run, and they occur at 7- or 8-day intervals. The only files in
> /etc/cron.daily are logrotate and man-db, neither of which I've touched.
>
> I've been expiring that e-mail folder at 30 days, so I have only four
> instances - I've now set the lifetime to 366 days to allow a history to
> build up.
>
> Anyone have a clue to this? It's hardly earth-shattering, but it might be
> good to find out what's going on.

Only to confirm that I have been getting these on an old 32bit laptop.  I 
suspect that they are caused by chrony which I run on this PC and some passwd 
setup that chronyc requires to connect to the timeservers and update RTC et 
al, via chronyd.  I have not looked into configuring it beyond a rather 
superficial "it'll do for now" level and have not yet added any chrony.keys.  
When I get a moment I will revisit the configuration to add the required key, 
but will need to spend some time going through the man pages first.

-- 
Regards,
Mick