On 11/16/2010 08:32 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I'm receiving errors from the mcelog.cron script in /etc/cron.hourly: > > /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron: > > read: No such device > > The mcelog.cron script contains the following 2 lines > #!/bin/bash > /usr/sbin/mcelog --ignorenodev --filter >> /var/log/mcelog > > This script is also consistent with RHEL 5.2. This message does not > occur every hour. > When I run the mcelog command by hand I do not get this message: > /usr/sbin/mcelog --ignorenodev --filter Yes, looks like a recurrence (or partial recurrence) of a bug I filed against fc12: 540477 >From the new comments in that bug, it looks like the error occurs on the first time the hourly cron job gets run after the machine is booted, and not after that (which would explain why there is no error when you run it by hand). Seems to be a kernel bug from reading the descriptions and upstream is aware of it (or soon will be). -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines