[linux-lvm] cronjob and logcheck

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:13:13PM +0100, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote:
> Hello,
> * Heinz J . Mauelshagen <mauelshagen at sistina.com> [020212 16:42]:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote:
> > > 2. I use logcheck and these msg are annoying:
> > > Feb 12 14:20:01 home /USR/SBIN/CRON[28697]: (root) CMD (/sbin/lvmsadc >
> > > /var/log/lvm >/dev/null 2>&1)
> > 
> > Because the cron entry doesn't create any STDOUT/STDERR anyway,
> > that shouldn't happen.
> 
> What's the problem? The file exists but has no contents. I don't get
> any other errors.

Well, AFAIU logcheck checks root mails and reports, but there shouldn't
be any mail because of no output of the lvmsadc job.

> 
> > Why don't you deactivate the cron entry for lvmsadc until you really
> > want logical volume io statistics?
> 
> That's a way I could do it, but I would like to know what cause this
> problem.

It is rather a cron problem than an LVM one.

> 
> Uli
> 
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