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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jmciver@lmtribune.com (Jim McIver)
Subject: Re: cron mail
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jmciver@lmtribune.com (Jim McIver) writes:

> Me again... I was following the Compete FreeBsd book along and 
> came to a section that said to type "crontab crontab" to install and run 
> the crontab.

I don't have my copy at hand, but I'm *sure* that the book did not
advise you to type "crontab /etc/crontab".  

It is, nonetheless, a frequently asked question.  See 
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS

> Now every 5 minutes root gets an email. Something like:
> Cron <root@ns1> root
> From: root
> To: root
> x-cron-env <shell=/bin/sh>
> etc....
> 
> root not found
> 
> I've killed cron to stop the message, but why is it doing this?
> 
> My shell is set to /bin/csh and I've tried changing it back to /bin/sh, 
> (chsh)but the messages just keep coming.
> 
> Only line I can see in the crontab file that's causing this is:
> /5	*	*........root  /usr/libexec/atrun
> 
> I can't seem to come up with enough info on atrun to help, or how to 
> tell Cron-env that the shell is now /bin/csh.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Jim McIver
> 
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