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From: John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:38:27
Message-Id: 17952.37203.526847.781123@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice? by Mick
1 on Saturday 04/14/2007 Mick(michaelkintzios@×××××.com) wrote
2 > On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:09, Albert Hopkins wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote:
4 > > > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote:
5 > > > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
6 > > > > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter:
7 > > > > > ===========================================
8 > > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or
9 > > > > > directory
10 > > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute:
11 > > > > > No such
12 > > > > > file or directory
13 > > > > > ===========================================
14 > > > >
15 > > > > I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my
16 > > > > /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis says
17 > > > >
18 > > > > exec nice makewhatis -u
19 > > >
20 > > > Hold on, I do not have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis either! My daily is
21 > > > just like yours. Perhaps this is something to do with vixie-cron updated
22 > > > yesterday. Do I need to do anything about it?
23 > >
24 > > Your email says /etc/cron.weekly so it must have existed at the time it
25 > > was generated. I've never seen a makewhatis in /etc/cron.weekly
26 >
27 > I've three different machines and all show the same error in dead.letter.
28 > Like yours none of them has a makewhatis under /etc/cron.weekly. It doesn't
29 > make sense to me.
30
31 I have it as weekly and I just fixed the path -- don't know why nice
32 was moved or what else went wrong. Seems to me it should be
33 weekly, anyway.
34
35 --
36 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
37 How do
38 you spend it?
39
40 John Covici
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