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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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> > I don't know when it started, but recently I've been getting error e-mails |
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> > from cron, thus: |
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> > Password: 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated |
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> > They're all timed at 03:10:0x, i.e. one minute after cron.daily tasks 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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> > 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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> > Anyone have a clue to this? It's hardly earth-shattering, but it might be |
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> > good to find out what's going on. |
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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 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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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 that |
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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 and |
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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 for |
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a while first though, to see if a pattern emerges. |
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Thanks for the idea Mick. |
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Regards |
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Peter |