From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 11:15:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.home.somerandomdomain.com (rr-26-93-155.atl.mediaone.net [66.26.93.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E01B37B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jgalvin@localhost) by defiant.home.somerandomdomain.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f17JFHi28688 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:15:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jgalvin@jgalvin.net) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:15:17 -0500 (EST) From: James Galvin X-Sender: jgalvin@defiant.home.somerandomdomain.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab In-Reply-To: <20010207082028.A74336@solveinteractive.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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