Bad File Descriptors

I noticed that the scheduled periodic tasks are not happening on my iBook with Onyx. The date last run is not advancing, stuck at February 10.if I run the commands in Terminal I get the following;iBook:~ rick$ sudo periodic daily weekly monthly/usr/sbin/periodic: line 1: /var/log/daily.out: No such file or directory/usr/sbin/periodic: line 106: 605 Broken pipe datecat: /tmp/periodic.YcCNxqpiL8: Bad file descriptorcat: /tmp/periodic.YcCNxqpiL8: Bad file descriptor/usr/sbin/periodic: line 1: /var/log/weekly.out: No such file or directory/usr/sbin/periodic: line 106: 643 Broken pipe datecat: /tmp/periodic.YcCNxqpiL8: Bad file descriptor/usr/sbin/periodic: line 1: /var/log/monthly.out: No such file or directory/usr/sbin/periodic: line 106: 691 Broken pipe datecat: /tmp/periodic.YcCNxqpiL8: Bad file descriptoriBook:~ rick$ I cannot mkdir log in /varhow would I fix the broken pipe at line 106?System is a 700Mhz iBook G3 running 10.4.5I'm keen to learn a bit more about this, any assistance greatly appreciated.thanks

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