From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 13: 2:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CA237BDA6 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: from jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz [10.3.1.1]) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08543; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:02:07 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA46368; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:02:05 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:02:05 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron sends messages to root Message-ID: <20000320090205.B46254@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> References: <200003190700.XAA82965@cytosine.dhs.org> <200003191658.IAA84370@cytosine.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003191658.IAA84370@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0800, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > I am still getting this from Cron even though > I removed root for the entries in /etc/crontab. Wrong place. [...] > > > root: not found > > > This is being generated from root's *personal* crontab file, and not the system's crontab in /etc/crontab. As root, "crontab -l" will list out root's crontab, crontab -e to edit, crontab -r to remove. Jonathan Chen --------------------------------------------------------------------- When all other forms of communication fail, use words To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message