Very Computer

I (root) get an email message occasionally (not daily) with the above
subject and the following contents:

"No valid records found!"

Does anyone know what this means?

: I (root) get an email message occasionally (not daily) with the above
: subject and the following contents:

: "No valid records found!"

: Does anyone know what this means?

(no .. we know exactly as much as you from this alone!)

Why don't you look in cron.daily and run the tasks there one by one
until you find the one that emits the message. If you really care, and
are not just trolling, that is ...

Peter

:         I never say anything without a purpose.

Then what was your purpose in posting a question only you can answer?

Peter

    To realize that there are questions only I can answer.

:> :         I never say anything without a purpose.
:> Then what was your purpose in posting a question only you can answer?
:     To realize that there are questions only I can answer.

I think that's a worthy aim :-) However, your act of rational
self-realization didn't require any external participants.  I suppose
murphy's law helped you discover that ...  after sending.

Perhaps you need to be formally introduced to the "cancel news
posting" button on your newsreader! It's often unknown and unnoticed.

OTOH, the observation of your process of rationalization may be
of use to many others, and aid them in their process of self-discovery
...

... so let the other hand clap NOW :-)

Peter

    Learning that there are  questions only ourselves can answer requires
others. You in this case and gratefully appreciated.

: I (root) get an email message occasionally (not daily) with the above
: subject and the following contents:

: "No valid records found!"

: Does anyone know what this means?

 I got that everyonce in awhile also. I think it was a web page useage
program (not 100% certain) and if I had no usage for that day I think I got
that message.

Remind me to never post a question to you.

:> :> :         I never say anything without a purpose.
:> :> Then what was your purpose in posting a question only you can answer?
:> :     To realize that there are questions only I can answer.
:> ... so let the other hand clap NOW :-)
: Remind me to never post a question to you.

Deal! And I'll promise to never post an answer to you :-).

Happy Thanksgiving.

PS. What does this have to do with Linux == GUNS?

Peter

: I (root) get an email message occasionally (not daily) with the above
: subject and the following contents:
:
: "No valid records found!"
:
: Does anyone know what this means?

No sorry, but I had a very similar message from my freshly installed
copy of RedHat 6.0 which led me to discover that the owner and group
of /var/lib/news/.news.daily was "root" and as all the other files in
the same directory were owned by "news" I chown'ed the file and
haven't had mail from cron since. That may not be of any help to you,
but given that this was a completely fresh install of RedHat 6.0
I thought I'd mention it just in case someone regards it as a bug to
be fixed.

May I ask what "trolling" is?

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 The message is from /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.cron.  webalizer  [makes
use of Linux log files] to create usage statistics for the Apache web
server (do a man on webalizer).  The problem is that [the webalizer log
files (and others) are rotated to backup files and cleared on a system
wide basis] by a utility called logrotate (do a man onlogrotate).
Logrotate is also present in /etc/cron.daily.  I suspect that the
contents of /etc/cron.daily are parsed in alphabetical order (by cron
making use of 'ls' most likely) and therefor logrotate is runbefore
webalizer.  "No valid records found!" is webalizer complaining that
there is nothing in it's log files.  I moved /etc/cron.daily/webalizer
to /etc/cron.daily/Webalizer so it will be run BEFORE logrotate.  Seems
to have done the trick.

[the point of all this snipped]

Quote:

> PS. What does this have to do with Linux == GUNS?

That has to be the funniest line I've seen in Usenet for some time.

(subplot:  if [ ${X} = ( [ $LINUX = $GUNS ] ); then ...  What?  )

You guys are way too deep for me.

ObGuns: I think every (eg.) little old lady deserves to have a nice
six foot tall and husky young man to escort her home at night.  Or, a
much cheaper and less imposing and more reliable Saturday night
special.  My favourite way to explain it is this:

        Suppose you're sittin' there in MacDonalds, chuffing back your
        imitation burger, and a nut stands up and pulls a gun.
        Nowadays, there'll be six* dead with multiples injured.

        If, on the other hand, everybody else is armed, the miscreant
        doesn't even get the chance to point the thing.  Fif*
        people blow him away immediately, never to be bothered with
        again.

        I think after a while, nuts who would pull guns in public
        places would be excised from the gene pool.  A good thing,
        wouldn't you think?

        Oh, you prefer instead to reason with them after the fact?
        Your choice.

I think everyone should be armed.  BTW, I don't own a gun.  This is Canada.

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You asked a question and you answer it yourself? Hmm.. people! Now, as somebody
posted before, ain't it stupid when your know the answer and yet to show-off,
you asked it in open forum like this.

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