[ale] why cron from /etc/crontab would reply on user 'uucp'

[Jerry Z. Yu]

greet all,

I removed user 'uucp' and group 'uucp' and got this email saying a cron
job from /etc/crontab generated error "error: uucp:8 unkown user
'uucp'". The cron job didn't run either.

If uucp was really needed for notification on error, why I got the err
message via email regardless?  If it is not needed for notification
purpose, then why it should has such dependency problem?

The regular cron from /var/spool/cron/ is not affected. This is test on RH
6.1 and 6.2 systems.

thanks.


Jerry Z. Yu				mailto: z.yu at ptek.com
Systems Engineer			https://punch
PTEK Holdings, Inc.			+1-404-262-8544 (O)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:51:01 -0500
From: Cron Daemon <root at linux.box.12>
To: ale at ale.org
To: root at linux.box.1
Subject: Cron <root at linux.box.12> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

error: uucp:8 unkown user 'uucp'

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