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On Tuesday 01 July 2014 15:01:33 I wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 01 July 2014 12:13:39 Mick wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 01 Jul 2014 10:48:12 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > Hell list, |
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> > > |
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> > > I don't know when it started, but recently I've been getting error |
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> > > e-mails |
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> > > from cron, thus: |
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> > > |
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> > > Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated |
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> > > |
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> > > They're all timed at 03:10:0x, i.e. one minute after cron.daily tasks |
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> > > are |
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> > > run, and they occur at 7- or 8-day intervals. The only files in |
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> > > /etc/cron.daily are logrotate and man-db, neither of which I've touched. |
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> > > |
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> > > I've been expiring that e-mail folder at 30 days, so I have only four |
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> > > instances - I've now set the lifetime to 366 days to allow a history to |
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> > > build up. |
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> > > |
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> > > Anyone have a clue to this? It's hardly earth-shattering, but it might |
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> > > be |
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> > > good to find out what's going on. |
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> > |
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> > Only to confirm that I have been getting these on an old 32bit laptop. I |
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> > suspect that they are caused by chrony which I run on this PC and some |
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> > passwd setup that chronyc requires to connect to the timeservers and |
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> > update |
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> > RTC et al, via chronyd. I have not looked into configuring it beyond a |
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> > rather superficial "it'll do for now" level and have not yet added any |
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> > chrony.keys. When I get a moment I will revisit the configuration to add |
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> > the required key, but will need to spend some time going through the man |
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> > pages first. |
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> |
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> I was beginning to think I was the only one still running chrony :) |
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> My chrony does have a key set up, so I don't think that's the cause. Now |
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> that you remind me, I changed the setup on 31/5. The Atom LAN server has an |
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> appalling hardware clock, so I changed things around so that both the Atom |
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> and this box synchronise over the Internet, and they peer with each other. |
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> Maybe I should split them apart to make them independent. I'll watch them |
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> for a while first though, to see if a pattern emerges. |
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> Thanks for the idea Mick. |
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Well, a week ago I did split the two chronys (the one on the server and the |
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one on the workstation), but I got another mail at 03:10:05 today. So I guess |
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that isn't it. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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