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Scott Rothgaber <scott@palmetto.tv> writes:

> I'm in the process of converting all of our servers from BSD/OS. One
> of the things that I've always done is to copy all of the jobs from
> `/etc/crontab' to root's crontab so that all of the system jobs are in
> one place.

A simple copy won't work; the files have different formats.

FAQ entry:
    "Why do I keep getting messages like ``root: not found'' after editing
     my crontab file?" 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS