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.