I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
messages in my mail this morning:

From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
To: root@localhost.localdomain
Subject: Cron <root@debian> sudo aptitude update
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:10:01 -0400

Hit ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid Release.gpg
Get:1 ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid/main Translation-en_CA
Ign ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid/main Translation-en_CA
Get:2 ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid/non-free Translation-en_CA
Get:3 http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de sid Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de sid/main Translation-en_CA
Ign ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid/non-free Translation-en_CA
Get:4 ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid/contrib Translation-en_CA

//big snip //

Hit ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid/main Sources
Fetched 6235B in 1s (3375B/s)
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Building tag database...
Deleting obsolete downloaded files

It seems cron ran once a minute starting at 5:00 AM and
ending at 5:59 AM .....apparently doing the same thing over and over.

I havn't added or changed anything --
I am sunning Sid

Anybody have any ideas ?


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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:

You mean that you don't run anacron when you don't leave the compuer on
overnight? There are _lots_ of default scripts in /etc/cron.daily that
need to run.

Doug.


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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:

You mean that you don't run anacron when you don't leave the compuer on
overnight? There are _lots_ of default scripts in /etc/cron.daily that
need to run.

Doug.


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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:

You probably have cron-apt installed.

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:

You probably have cron-apt installed.

Regards,
Andrei
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:01:47 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >
> > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> > messages in my mail this morning:
>
> You mean that you don't run anacron when you don't leave the compuer
> on overnight? There are _lots_ of default scripts in /etc/cron.daily
> that need to run.


Yes I run anacron - but what explains the mail? The machine has been
on from 7 am until midnight quite often but never did anything like
this before.

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On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:41:20 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >
> > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> > messages in my mail this morning:
>
> You probably have cron-apt installed.


No...not on this machine.



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Frank McCormick wrote:
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:
>
> From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@localhost.localdomain
> Subject: Cron <root@debian> sudo aptitude update

You must have a crontab entry that says "sudo aptitude update".

> It seems cron ran once a minute starting at 5:00 AM and
> ending at 5:59 AM .....apparently doing the same thing over and over.

Sounds like a bad time spec in your crontab.

# field descriptions
# minute (0-59),
# hour (0-23),
# day of the month (1-31),),
# month of year (1-12),
# day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).

Therefore the following would run once a minute. This is only an
example based upon your report.

* * * * * sudo aptitude update

> I havn't added or changed anything --
> I am sunning Sid

How can you say with a straight face that nothing has changed and yet
also say that you are running Sid?

> Anybody have any ideas ?

$ sudo crontab -l

$ find /etc/cron.* -type f -exec grep "aptitude.*update" {} +

Bob


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Frank McCormick wrote:
> I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> messages in my mail this morning:
>
> From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@localhost.localdomain
> Subject: Cron <root@debian> sudo aptitude update

You must have a crontab entry that says "sudo aptitude update".

> It seems cron ran once a minute starting at 5:00 AM and
> ending at 5:59 AM .....apparently doing the same thing over and over.

Sounds like a bad time spec in your crontab.

# field descriptions
# minute (0-59),
# hour (0-23),
# day of the month (1-31),),
# month of year (1-12),
# day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).

Therefore the following would run once a minute. This is only an
example based upon your report.

* * * * * sudo aptitude update

> I havn't added or changed anything --
> I am sunning Sid

How can you say with a straight face that nothing has changed and yet
also say that you are running Sid?

> Anybody have any ideas ?

$ sudo crontab -l

$ find /etc/cron.* -type f -exec grep "aptitude.*update" {} +

Bob


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On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:42:29 -0600
bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) wrote:

> Frank McCormick wrote:
> > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> > messages in my mail this morning:
> >
> > From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
> > To: root@localhost.localdomain
> > Subject: Cron <root@debian> sudo aptitude update
>
> You must have a crontab entry that says "sudo aptitude update".
>

Nope...nothing like that.

> > It seems cron ran once a minute starting at 5:00 AM and
> > ending at 5:59 AM .....apparently doing the same thing over and
> > over.
>
> Sounds like a bad time spec in your crontab.
>
>
> > I havn't added or changed anything --
> > I am sunning Sid
>
> How can you say with a straight face that nothing has changed and yet
> also say that you are running Sid?
>


I didn't say nothing has changed...I said *I* haven't added or
changed anything...specifically the crontab(s)


> > Anybody have any ideas ?
>
> $ sudo crontab -l
>
> $ find /etc/cron.* -type f -exec grep "aptitude.*update" {} +

Comes up empty...i.e. nothing returned. I'll have to leave it on
overnight again and see what happens. I guess with Sid, anything is
possible.


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Damn! 10 seconds after I wrote the mail below I did sudo crontab -l
and got:

0-59 5 * * * sudo aptitude update

How the he** did that get into there?? Would it be part of a cron or
anacron update??




On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:56:49 -0400
Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:42:29 -0600
> bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) wrote:
>
> > Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these
> > > messages in my mail this morning:
> > >
> > > From: root@localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
> > > To: root@localhost.localdomain
> > > Subject: Cron <root@debian> sudo aptitude update
> >
> > You must have a crontab entry that says "sudo aptitude update".
> >
>
> Nope...nothing like that.
>
> > > It seems cron ran once a minute starting at 5:00 AM and
> > > ending at 5:59 AM .....apparently doing the same thing over and
> > > over.
> >
> > Sounds like a bad time spec in your crontab.
> >
> >
> > > I havn't added or changed anything --
> > > I am sunning Sid
> >
> >
> > $ sudo crontab -l
> >
> > $ find /etc/cron.* -type f -exec grep "aptitude.*update" {} +


This still comes up empty.
>
> Comes up empty...i.e. nothing returned. I'll have to leave it on
> overnight again and see what happens. I guess with Sid, anything is
> possible.

Frank
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Frank McCormick wrote:
> Damn! 10 seconds after I wrote the mail below I did sudo crontab -l
> and got:

As I was sure that you would. :-) :-)

> 0-59 5 * * * sudo aptitude update

Yeah! The problem has been found! I was confident that it was in
there somewhere. Glad that things worked out.

> How the he** did that get into there?? Would it be part of a cron or
> anacron update??

I am sure it was the work of either poltergeists or gremlins. It
should not be part of any system package and if so would be a
violation of policy. Packages would use one of the whole files in
/etc/cron.* and not the personal SysV style crontab. Those are for
the humans and not for the programs.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-pol...rsys.html#s9.5

Bob


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