thanks....could someone pass along their origional uucp account? :)
and i thought i was being polite! :)

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Erik Bertelsen wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, eenfo stealing phreaks wrote:
> 
> .. Forwarded message:
> .. > From ??? Thu Jan 30 19:00:04 1997
> .. > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:00:03 -0800 (PST)
> .. > Message-Id: <199701310300.TAA07145@asylum.psyber.com>
> .. > From: root (Cron Daemon)
> .. > To: root
> .. > Subject: Cron <root@asylum> /usr/bin/newsyslog
> .. > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> .. > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> .. > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/log>
> .. > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> .. > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> .. > 
> .. > Error in config file; unknown user:
> .. > /var/log/aculog		uucp.dialer	640  7    *    24    Z
> .. > 
> .. 
> .. ok...what the HECK is this? i keep getting this mailed to my root
> .. account...ugh.
> .. 
> 
> I guess that it won't hurt you to use a slightly more polite language ???
> 
> Anyway: The NetBSD system has a cron entry to run the newsyslog command
> each hour. This program uses a configuration file, and one of the entries
> in this file contains a reference to the user name "uucp". I guess that
> you have removed this user name from your system thinking that you don't
> need it. I hope that this may help you to explain your problem.
> 
> regards
> Erik Bertelsen.
>