From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 9:51:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cair.stonehenge-net.com (dsl081-053-197-sfo1.dsl-isp.net [64.81.53.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B56637B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:51:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@stonehenge-net.com) Received: from stonehenge-net.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cair.stonehenge-net.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1SHpE427169; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@stonehenge-net.com) Message-ID: <3A9D3A88.30409@stonehenge-net.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:51:04 -0800 From: Ben Calvert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010225 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron help? References: <15005.5708.642413.344467@guru.mired.org> <3A9D268B.12D92E49@mail.iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG interesting... apparently typing 'crontab crontab' as root sets up an additional user crontab instead of editing the /etc/crontab file. thanks guys! Bill Moran wrote: > This looks like something I've seen before. It appears that you've got a > user crontab with the system crontab format. A user crontab doesn't > include the "who" like ("root" in this case) because it always runs as > the user who owns it. > Search around and see if you've got any other crontabs around that might > contain the same data as this one. It's possible (especially if you're > new) that you edited the crontab for a normal user as well. > > -Bill > > Mike Meyer wrote: > >> Ben Calvert types: >> >>> i just set up a new /etc/crontab (see below) yesterday and have been >>> getting this every 5 minutes since. the weird thing is that the atrun >>> line wasn't modified at all, i just added a script to run cvsup at 3 pm >>> every day... >>> >>> this is my first time trying to set up cron, so i'm sure there's >>> something really obvious i'm doing wrong... >> >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message