Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
I've searched the archive and not found anything about this.
Every five minutes, the root account on this system gets another copy of the mail below. I've triple-chekced and the bb4 user does NOT have any cron jobs. Despite the name we are running Hobbit and not BB.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? This tends to fill up the mail spool...
From: root at hostname.fqdn <mailto:root at hostname.fqdn> (Cron Daemon) To: <mailto:root at m> root@ <mailto:root at hostname.fqdn> hostname.fqdn Subject: Cron <mailto:bb4 at v> bb4@ <mailto:bb4 at hostname> hostname /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=bb4>
Unrecognized escape \w passed through at /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl line 84.
Doug Linder UNIX Systems Administrator CompuCom Systems, Inc.
SABIC Innovative Plastics T: 413 448 7563 D: *838 7563 E: doug.linder at sabic-ip.com <mailto:doug.linderrdoug.linder at sabic-ip.com>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant) <Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com> wrote:
I've searched the archive and not found anything about this.
Every five minutes, the root account on this system gets another copy of the mail below. I've triple-chekced and the bb4 user does NOT have any cron jobs. Despite the name we are running Hobbit and not BB.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? This tends to fill up the mail spool...
From: root at hostname.fqdn (Cron Daemon) To: <root at m>root@ <root at hostname.fqdn>hostname.fqdn Subject: Cron <bb4 at v>bb4@ <bb4 at hostname>hostname/bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=bb4>
Unrecognized escape \w passed through at /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl line 84.
Does root have a cron job that does something like "su - bb4 -c /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl"??
Ralph Mitchell
Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] wrote:
Does root have a cron job that does something like "su - bb4 -c /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl"??
Unfortnately no. The root user doesn't even have a file in /var/spool/cron.
All I can think is that one of the hobbit server processes itself is running something on a regular basis. But that's the lesser question. The bigger question is "what does the error mean and how do I shut it up?" :)
/etc/crontab? (or some other central file). Root crontab entries aren't normally in /var/spool/cron.
From: Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant) [mailto:Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com] Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 2:58 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] wrote:
Does root have a cron job that does something like "su - bb4 -c /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl"??
Unfortnately no. The root user doesn't even have a file in /var/spool/cron.
All I can think is that one of the hobbit server processes itself is running something on a regular basis. But that's the lesser question. The bigger question is "what does the error mean and how do I shut it up?" :)
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Thanks for that. That's where it was.
Figures - I've been a unix admin forever and I never even knew that file was there. I always use /var/spool/cron. You learn something new every day.
DL
From: Scott, Brian [mailto:Brian.Scott at det.nsw.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:30 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
/etc/crontab? (or some other central file). Root crontab entriesaren't normally in /var/spool/cron.
From: Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant)[mailto:Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com] Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 2:58 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] wrote:
> Does root have a cron job that does something like "su - bb4-c /bb4/bb/server/ext/shares.pl"??
Unfortnately no. The root user doesn't even have a file in/var/spool/cron.
All I can think is that one of the hobbit server processesitself is running something on a regular basis. But that's the lesser question. The bigger question is "what does the error mean and how do I shut it up?" :)
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