What's the meaning of this warning from gkrellm?

[Dan Farrell]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:03:53 +0100
Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo <4.magarzo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> El dom, 10-02-2008 a las 14:15 +0100, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo
> escribió:
> > Gkrellm notifies that there are new email notifications from root
> > at /var/log/<myuser>. These mails are generated because of
> > somethings is wrong with the cron.daily, but I don't know how to
> > interpret it:
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > >From root at ulises Sun Feb 10 12:09:33 2008
> > Return-path: <root at ulises>
> > Envelope-to: root at ulises
> > Delivery-date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:09:33 +0100
> > Received: from root by Ulises with local (Exim 4.67)
> > 	(envelope-from <root at ulises>)
> > 	id 1JOA3w-00073n-OM
> > 	for root at ulises; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:09:33 +0100
> > From: Anacron <root at ulises>
> > To: root at ulises
> > Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on Ulises
> > Message-Id: <E1JOA3w-00073n-OM at Ulises>
> > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:09:32 +0100
> > 
> > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> > error: firebird1.5:8 unknown user 'firebird'
> > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > A search with Synaptic says that something called firebird is
> > installed in this system,that's a kind of SQL database, probably
> > installed as dependency of other package.
> > 
> > 
> > ............................................
> > common files for firebird 1.5 servers and clients
> > This package contains files common to both servers and clients for
> > both super
> > and classic flavours.
> > 
> > These include the security database, message file (firebird.msg),
> > support
> > scripts as well as configuration files in /etc/firebird/1.5.
> > 
> > Please refer to the firebird1.5-super or firebird1.5-classic
> > packages for more
> > information about Firebird in general.
> > 
> >  Homepage: http://www.firebirdsql.org/
> > ............................................................................
> > 
> > How to avoid that messages from gkrellm? Anyone knows, please?
> > Actually, it doesn't matter much IMO, but I'd like to be able to do
> > that they disappear. 
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> No one? 
> 
> No ideas?
Well, one.  It appears that source of the error is logrotate, run from
cron.daily.  I would check the logrotate config, see if it's trying to
back up something that doesn't exist or something.  

I have no idea what - if anything - this has to do with gkrellm 


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