Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:23:28 +0100 From: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> To: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message from CRON Message-ID: <1078824208.811.5.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403081817560.2692@Treneq> References: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0403081817560.2692@Treneq>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:25, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >From time to time, I receive a notification that I have mail in > /var/mail/ges. > > Upon checking, this is what I find: > > Subject: Cron <ges@BudMan> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy [...] > operator: not found > > Subject: Cron <ges@BudMan> root /usr/libexec/atrun [...] > root: not found > > You will notice that these times are very close together. Actually, I have > received messages with the times varying by only a few seconds. Why am I > receiving these messages, and what are they trying to tell me? > > Thanks! > > Gerard Seibert > gerard-seibert@rcn.com > did you modify your /etc/crontab? #minute hour mday month wday who command */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun */11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy It looks like you have an additional column in these lines, so that cron thinks "root" and "operator" are commands to execute. HTH, Andreas [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBATY0QYucd7Ow1ygwRAsQTAJ4+kGnE+iNvBjPnUntYp6X7jR2zZQCdGOi/ PBsP435fAwLukr8IIc3OZ5M= =VU2K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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