On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Hans Hübner wrote:

Message from syslogd@tiger at Mar 9 03:20:44 ... cvs: error (1, 0) called recursively. Original message was: Message from syslogd@tiger at Mar 9 03:20:44 ... cvs: cvs [checkout aborted]: flow control EOF Message from syslogd@tiger at Mar 9 03:20:44 ... cvs: error (1, 0) called recursively. Second message was: Message from syslogd@tiger at Mar 9 03:20:44 ... cvs: cvs [checkout aborted]: received broken pipe signal

Any thoughts?

Ignore it. This appears to be an old CVS nuisance. http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?26608 If they are too common, it might indicate an automated CVS tool that isn't closing cleanly. Is that why you said cron job? Possible stdin/stdout or password problem. - Daniel