Description of Problem:

I regularly see the following error mailed out of cron on 572 SMP
machines:-

yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out


I see this error even when the cron entry has stdout/stderr redirected as
in the following example:-

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /etc/DaemonKeeper monitor 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

These errors also appear to be generated by /etc/cron.d/kmod


The error seems to be non-fatal, but generates a lot of noise.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RedHat 6.2
2.2.16-3smp kernel
vixie-cron-3.0.1-40

I cannot say definitively whether this occurs under RedHat7.1 as our main
application will not yet run reliably with this OS and so the machines
running 7.1 are under a very light load. My feeling is that it does still
occur. I have NOT noticed this error on a 7.1 machine which is NOT running
nis.


How Reproducible:

approx 50 occurrences per day on some machines

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:
	
I will try working around this by setting MAILTO="" and writing a script to
filter the cron outputs, i.e.;

*/10 8-19 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/mesgmon 2>&1 | filterscript


I have seen over 1000 of these emails generated in a 1-hour period, so
procmail is not really an option.

Regards.....Tim