Date: 04 Apr 1998 18:59:18 -0500 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: Harry Patterson <harry@visiontm.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab problems Message-ID: <87emzdf8a1.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Andrew's message of "Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:27:24 %2B1000 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980405092310.551A-100000@python.shoal.net.au>
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(hopeI got the attribution right?) > > I am having trouble with cron. I have Freebsd 2.2.5. The daily, weekly and > > monthly processes work fine, but several days ago I started to get error > > message in root's mail (see below) stating "root: not found" whenever it > > tries to run atrun or newsyslog. I've included a sample from the cron log > > file, the crontab file itself and the mail message. The atrun and newsyslog > > files are in the directories that the crontab file is pointing to. It's the > > root crontab file, so I don't think it's a rights issue. I'm at a loss as to > > what it's trying to tell me and how to fix it. > > > > Could someone point me in the right direction? The format for root's crontab and /etc/crontab are different. in particular, the /etc/crontab file needs to list who the process runs as (e.g., root). Sounds like you're using the format for /etc/crontab in root's crontab entry... -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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