Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:08:57 +0200 From: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron can't find root or operator Message-ID: <200405202308.57905.platanthera@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20040520205749.4392.qmail@web40409.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040520205749.4392.qmail@web40409.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:57, carvin5string wrote: > --- Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > good luck. > > > > -- > > Bill Moran > > Potential Technologies > > http://www.potentialtech.com > > Bill, > I see in the Handbook in section 6.6.1 that I should run crontab > crontab to create a new crontab, which I did, in the /etc directory, > as root. Thats's most likely the problem. Do NOT run crontab /etc/crontab Read the FAQ!!!
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