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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:34:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Stickney <david@wvb.gomel.by>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crontab, Uucico question.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961115133133.3704A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611152003.WAA03269@wvb.gomel.by>

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Try to avoid crossposting.  questions would have been sufficient.

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, David Stickney wrote:

> Crontab keeps sending me a note ever 5 minutes, saying:
> 
> subj: Cron <root@wvb> root	/usr/libexec/atrun
> root: not found
> 
> I'm thinkin' Hey, Im Root...
> 
> here is what is in my var/cron/tabs/root

Don't look at this file directly (as the comment), use crontab(1) instead.

What has happened is that the /etc/crontab file has been checked into
root's crontab entry.  You need to run as root

crontab -r

to delete root's crontab.

The /etc/crontab is a special format in that there is a user field.  The
regular user crontabs don't have this field.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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