Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
list Doug Linder
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: user-3ef3bcd99a11@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-3ef3bcd99a11@xymon.invalid> (Cron Daemon) To: <mailto:root at m> root@ <mailto:user-3ef3bcd99a11@xymon.invalid> 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: XXX XXX XXXX D: *838 7563 E: user-c834f078a0a6@xymon.invalid
list Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics,
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consultant) <user-c834f078a0a6@xymon.invalid> 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: user-3ef3bcd99a11@xymon.invalid (Cron Daemon) To: <root at m>root@ <user-3ef3bcd99a11@xymon.invalid>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
list Doug Linder
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Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid] 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?" :)
list Brian Scott
/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:user-c834f078a0a6@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 2:58 AM To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Subject: RE: [hobbit] Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
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Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid] 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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list Doug Linder
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
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From: Scott, Brian [mailto:user-df7f2d901ba1@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:30 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
/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:user-c834f078a0a6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 2:58 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Unrecognized escape error in shares.pl
Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid] 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?" :) ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. **********************************************************************