Greeting,
I received four replies and they did certainly shed some light on the problem.
First of all thanks to the following for their help.
Yue Yang - dhooton@ix.netcom.com
Simon-Bernard Drolet - Simon-Bernard.Drolet@Sisca.qc.ca
Artur Rodrigues - Artur@capes.gov.br
Kurt Werth - werth@cs.lmco.com
And the winner is Kurt Werth, who hit it right on the head. This is how his
mail goes :-
"Sounds like you may have a crontab file for an account that doesn't exist
anymore. On the machine in question, look in /var/spool/cron/crontabs for
a crontab file that has no owner. Cron can't find the account which to
reply back to, hence the "who are you" message."
This certainly was the case and was causing the problem (I think). I guess
I will have to wait to see if this problem pops up again or not. But my
personal feeling is that, it definately was the case of missing account with
crontabs left over.
Thanks to all of you for you help. Its a great list and I don't know what
we will do without it.
Cheers!
-- Joey Singh (joey@mds.rmit.edu.au) Computer System Administrator MDS - RMIT, 723 Swanston Street CARLTON - 3053, Australia Phone: +61 3 9282 2484, Fax: +61 3 9282 2490 http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/"It's bad luck to be superstitious." -- Andrew W. Mathis
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