Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:15:17 -0500 (EST) From: James Galvin <jgalvin@jgalvin.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102071412370.28673-100000@defiant.home.somerandomdomain.com> In-Reply-To: <20010207082028.A74336@solveinteractive.com>
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I believe that is what the problem is. My roommate noticed that /var/cron/tabs/root contained the exact same information as /etc/crontab. INCLUDING the "who" field. Basically, what I believe was happening is that in a users crontab, you do not specify who to run the command as. Since "root" was specified in /var/cron/tabs/root then it was trying to actually launch the command "root", which of course doesn't work. I don't know if I explained it too well, but I know that many of you understood what I'm trying to say, so if you want to reexplain it a little clearer... Be my guest... :) Thanks for all of your help though... :) On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Robert Hough wrote: > James Galvin [jgalvin@jgalvin.net] wrote: > > Yes... > > > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > > Did you use crontab -e > > > to edit it ? > > Have you checked in /var/cron/tabs for any rogue crontabs? I'd almost bet there > is one in there. Somewhere... > > > -- > Robert Hough (rch@solveinteractive.com) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > - James Galvin, jgalvin@jgalvin.net - http://www.jgalvin.net/ - PAL: jgalvin@mindspring.net - Y!: jamesg546 - AIM: Jimmy546 - ICQ: 3556033 "Calm down -- it's only zeros and ones" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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