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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:40:22 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "John Keiffer" <john.keiffer@onstor.com>
Cc: "dl-QA" <dl-qa@onstor.com>, "dl-hcl-qa" <dl-hcl-qa@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: missing lines in the Cougar crontab
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Correct.

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:23:45 -0800 "John Keiffer"
<john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:

> I think we can leave out the PATH line since it contains the old path
> in it. Is that correct Andy?
> 
>  
> 
> -John
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: John Keiffer 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:04 PM
> To: dl-QA; dl-hcl-qa
> Subject: missing lines in the Cougar crontab
> Importance: High
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Everyone with a Cougar system should check their crontab. If you are
> missing these lines, then add them back into the crontab.
> 
>  
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> 
> # (/tmp/crontab.nn6587 installed on Tue Feb 12 09:58:33 2008)
> 
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.1.1.1 2001/08/23 20:53:40 maximk
> Exp $)
> 
> #
> 
> MAILTO=""
> 
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> 
> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/agile/bin
> 
> HOME=/var/log
> 
> #
> 
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    command
> 
> #
> 
>  
> 
> I have entered defect 22295 to cover this problem.
> 
>  
> 
> FYI: There should be no entries in Cougar crontab's that point to
> /usr/local/agile anymore. They still exist on Bobcat Cougar systems
> until we upgrade to Sub 8. Please don't delete anything from your
> crontabs, only add the above line if you need them. Also, you may find
> that you have 2 ascron lines (1 old and 1 new path), this should also
> be fixed by Sub 8.
> 
>  
> 
> -John
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Keiffer 
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:30 AM
> To: Andy Sharp
> Cc: Rendell Fong
> Subject: RE: 21717
> 
>  
> 
> Okay, I added the following lines to the crontab on my Cougar since
> they were all missing:
> 
>  
> 
> MAILTO=""
> 
> HOME=/var/log
> 
> #
> 
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    command
> 
>  
> 
> Do I just leave the mailto blank?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: Andy Sharp 
> 
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:13 AM
> 
> To: John Keiffer
> 
> Cc: Rendell Fong
> 
> Subject: Re: 21717
> 
>  
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:54:47 -0800 "John Keiffer"
> 
> <john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> > 
> 
> > This stuff is mostly over my head (as you both probably already
> > know).
> 
>  
> 
> I don't know, it sounds like you got it pretty much exactly.
> 
>  
> 
> > These are the lines in my Bobcat Cougar system's crontab:
> 
> > 
> 
> > MAILTO=""
> 
> > SHELL=/bin/sh
> 
> > PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/agile/bin:/onstor/bin
> 
> > HOME=/var/log
> 
> > 
> 
> > Those lines are not in the Cougar systems. Are you suggesting we add
> 
> > the MAILTO line?
> 
>  
> 
> Add the MAILTO and HOME lines.  The others aren't necessary on Linux.
> 
>  
> 
> > Thanks,
> 
> > John
> 
> > 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> 
> > From: Rendell Fong 
> 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:13 PM
> 
> > To: Andy Sharp; John Keiffer
> 
> > Subject: RE: 21717
> 
> > 
> 
> > I've seen situations where emrscron (launched via crontab)
> > indirectly
> 
> > causes emails to be generated when an error occurs while running an
> 
> > nfxsh or sh cmd.  Will setting MAILTO in the crontab suppress emails
> 
> > from getting generated this way?  I hope so because it will be a
> > while
> 
> > before we can be sure that support.sh and emrscron are fixed for
> 
> > Cougar.
> 
> > 
> 
> > Rendell
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> 
> > From: Andy Sharp 
> 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:01 PM
> 
> > To: John Keiffer
> 
> > Cc: Rendell Fong
> 
> > Subject: Re: 21717
> 
> > 
> 
> > Hmm, there is a separate bug that is involved here, one that can
> > also
> 
> > lead to "queue full" and /var filling up, albeit after a very long
> 
> > time.
> 
> > 
> 
> > For some reason, we aren't getting the line
> 
> > 
> 
> > MAILTO=""
> 
> > 
> 
> > at the top of the root crontab.  That can be added by hand until we
> 
> > get it straightened out, probably in the next submittal.  Feel free
> 
> > to file a new bug report on that.
> 
> > 
> 
> > Cheers,
> 
> > 
> 
> > a
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:26:18 -0800 "John Keiffer"
> 
> > <john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> 
> > > I checked the frozen messages on 2 different systems and I found
> 
> > > that they have different errors. So the question is where this
> 
> > > configuration lives, so that I we can try and edit it.
> 
> > > 
> 
> > >  
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > g10r10:~# cat /var/spool/exim4/msglog/1JMqhe-0001BV-5h
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > 2008-02-06 12:17:06 Received from root@ U=root P=local S=785
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > 2008-02-06 12:17:09 routing failed for root@: mail domain "" is
> 
> > > syntactically invalid
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > Process failed (1) when writing error message to root@ (frozen)
> 
> > > 
> 
> > >  
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > g6r10:~# cat /var/spool/exim4/msglog/1JMqks-0003I1-U6
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > 2008-02-06 12:20:27 Received from <> R=1JMqiY-000340-EW
> 
> > > U=Debian-exim P=local S=4260
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > 2008-02-06 12:20:27 routing failed for root@g6r10: Unrouteable
> 
> > > address
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > *** Frozen (delivery error message)
> 
> > > 
> 
> > >  
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > Thank you,
> 
> > > 
> 
> > > John Keiffer
> 
> > > 
> 
> > >  
> 
> > > 
> 
> > >  
> 
> > > 
> 
