Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:44:35 +0200 From: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron can't find root or operator Message-ID: <200405201844.36529.platanthera@web.de> In-Reply-To: <40ACD318.4050009@potentialtech.com> References: <20040520141445.50289.qmail@web40408.mail.yahoo.com> <40ACD318.4050009@potentialtech.com>
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 17:47, Bill Moran wrote: > carvin5string wrote: > > I have a new server set up and running and am getting a slew of > > messages from cron, like this - > > > > Subject: Cron <root@www> root /usr/libexec/atrun > > Body: root: not found > > > > and > > > > Cron <root@www> operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy > > operator: not found > > > > What's going on with cron? > > You've got a user's crontab created in the format of the system > crontab. > > The system crontab has an extra field to designate the user under > which the job should run. When this field is entered in a user's > crontab, cron interprets it as the command to be run and the errors > you describe generally result. > > Keep in mind that the user "root" has a user crontab that is > different from the system crontab. > > If you're still fuzzy as to what went wrong, reading the man pages > for crontab (in addition to my explanation) should help. additionally you might want to have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS > good luck.
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