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Date:      20 Mar 1999 18:31:03 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
Cc:        Donald <druid@eoe-magical.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Crontab entry
Message-ID:  <xzp4sngxe3s.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Eric Wayte's message of "Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:59:01 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <Pine.SV4.3.96.990320115458.5247E-200000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>

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Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> writes:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Donald wrote:
> > 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *   root   /usr/majordomo/wrapper
> > mj_key_cache 2>&1 | sendmail root
> Take out the root - the crontab is associated with the user that created
> it.  See man crontab(1), man crontab(5) for additional info.

Bzzt - his error was trying to run it through crontab. The "root" part
is correct. You should both read the cron(8) man page and especially
what it says about /etc/crontab.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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