Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:05:12 +0200 From: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating periodic cron jobs Message-ID: <200405131805.13058.platanthera@web.de> In-Reply-To: <1084463494.2480.92.camel@columbus> References: <1084463494.2480.92.camel@columbus>
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On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > 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', have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS > 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: <root@esmtp.webtent.net> > 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 <root@esmtp.webtent.net>; 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 <root@esmtp.webtent.net>; 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@esmtp> root /usr/libexec/atrun > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > 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
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