QUESTION Cron error: /dev/mem

[jaycos]

Hi all,
I could use your help with this. My iPBX13-13 (HiFormance) sends me an email every hour, saying
Subject: Cron <root@noreply> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron:
mcelog: Cannot open /dev/mem for DMI decoding: Operation not permitted
How can I fix this?

Bonus question: The email gets sent to [email protected] - how can I change that to a real email address?

 

[David Foxworth]

Hi all,
I could use your help with this. My iPBX13-13 (HiFormance) sends me an email every hour, saying
Subject: Cron <root@noreply> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron:
mcelog: Cannot open /dev/mem for DMI decoding: Operation not permitted
How can I fix this?

Bonus question: The email gets sent to [email protected] - how can I change that to a real email address?

You are getting that error because your iPBX setup at HiFormance is an OpenVZ container, therefore you are not allowed execute the mcelog command. To stop that error, delete the file /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron or remove it from that directory.

 

[jaycos]

Thank you, that helped!
Here's another error message I keep getting:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: asterisk:5 unknown option 'su' -- ignoring line
error: asterisk:5 unexpected text
Any idea what to do about that?

 

[David Foxworth]

Change your /etc/logrotate.d/asterisk file to look like this:

/var/log/asterisk/*log {
   missingok
   rotate 5
   weekly
   create 0640 asterisk asterisk
   postrotate
       /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'logger reload' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
   endscript
}

/var/log/asterisk/full /var/log/asterisk/security {
   missingok
   rotate 8
   daily
   create 0640 asterisk asterisk
   postrotate
       /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'logger reload' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
   endscript
}

/var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/*csv {
  missingok
  rotate 5
  monthly
  create 0640 asterisk asterisk
}

On the second stanza you might not need /var/log/asterisk/security. I enabled that log file for my Asterisk install, but if you didn't then you can get by with just /var/log/asterisk/full

 

[jaycos]

Thanks! I only used the second stanza, as the original file only had just /var/log/asterisk/full