Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!boulder!jdm From: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: strange cron message Keywords: find, stat(), cron Message-ID: <26177@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 13 Sep 90 15:43:42 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 33 I have been getting the following message from my 4D/25, running 3.2.1 software: ---------------- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 05:00:27 MDT From: Super-User Apparently-To: root find: stat() failed: /tmp/croutONAa00141: No such file or directory ************************************************* Cron: The previous message is the standard output and standard error of one of your cron commands. --------------- Given the time and date of the message, I suspect it is due to the following command in roots crontab file: ---------- 3 5 * * * find /usr/preserve -local -type f -atime +30 -mtime +30 -exec rm -f '{}' ';' ----------- Does anyone know what is going on? Yours in unix-ignorance; Jim Meiss Program in Applied Mathematics jdm@boulder.colorado.edu