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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:06:32 -0500
Subject: cron -- root: not found
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I am a running FreeBSD 4.2R system and am quite new at it.

Last night, I decided to look at  the default crontab so I issued 
"crontab  -u root -e" (I now realize I should have used -l instead) and 
there it was. Since I really didn't want to change anything, typed ":" and 
then "q!".  I then decided I wanted to print the contents of 
/etc/periodic/daily" so I typed " cd /etc/periodic/daily" and then "cat * > 
dailyfile".  / immediately filled up.  I deleted dailyfile and reissued the 
cat as " cat * > ~/dailyfile" and all was well.

Well not quite, I am getting an email from cron every five minutes:
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:50:00 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200101110250.f0B2o0500226@a.b.c>
Subject: Cron <root@mimas> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
To:  root@a.b.c
From:  root@a.b.c (Cron Daemon)
X-UIDL: ec9260d669e9fb0937417cdebb909904

root: not found
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Any and all ideas are welcome
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Scott Reber
AtLANta TEChnical Group, Inc.
sreber@atltechgroup.com



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