Odd message from cron daemon

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:58:31PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> I get an e-mail like the following every eleven minutes on my test
> system:
> 
> =================================================================
> 
> >From operator at contactdish.atkielski.com Sun Feb 27 16:55:00 2005
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:55:00 +0100 (CET)
> From: operator at contactdish.atkielski.com (Cron Daemon)
> To: operator at contactdish.atkielski.com
> Subject: Cron <operator at contactdish> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
> 
> This: not found
> 
> =================================================================
> 
> What does this message mean?  I've never seen it on my production
> system.

The save-entropy script is being run from cron. See /etc/crontab. The first
line of this script after the header begins with "# This". It looks like
the hash mark was removed, and the shell is trying to find the "This"
command and fails.

Roland
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