From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 08:50:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8988E16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 08:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.webtent.net (hermes.webtent.net [192.216.106.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E5443D3F for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 08:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@webtent.com) Received: from columbus.webtent.org (webtent.org [198.79.127.235]) by hermes.webtent.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i4DFocj12513 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:50:38 -0400 From: Robert Fitzpatrick To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain Organization: WebTent Networking, Inc. Message-Id: <1084463494.2480.92.camel@columbus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:51:44 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Creating periodic cron jobs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:50:42 -0000 I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as follows in /etc/crontab: 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my script there. After I ran 'crontab -u root /etc/crontab', now I am getting these mail messages below, it seems I have created, for example, cron jobs as 'root /usr/libexec/atrun' in addition to the usual '/usr/libexec/atrun'. It has done this for daily, weekly, etc. as well. Can someone tell me what I did wrong? Return-Path: Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([unix socket]) by esmtp.webtent.net (Cyrus v2.1.16) with LMTP; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 Received: from localhost (localhost.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id 2734CEBD26 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (esmtp.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22701-08 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway, from userid 0) id 053C8EBD24; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT) From: root@esmtp.webtent.net (Cron Daemon) To: root@esmtp.webtent.net Subject: Cron root /usr/libexec/atrun X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Message-Id: <20040513154501.053C8EBD24@esmtp.webtent.net> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by the WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway X-Evolution-Source: imap://admin;auth=CRAM-MD5@esmtp.webtent.net/ Mime-Version: 1.0 root: not found -- Robert